From White Collar Crime to Exploitation: Redefinition of a Field

Harold E. Pepinsky

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field of inquiry is created in the social sciences, the definition has a great deal more than academic significance. Researchers who develop knowledge about the field and those who use the knowledge to carry out policy both are constrained by the way the field characterizes the social problems they encounter. The field of white-collar crime exemplifies this constraint. When Sutherland defined white-collar criminality, he explicitly observed that acceptance of his definition would imply recognition of a set of social problems to be resolved through the application of research stated in a new set of terms. He wrote:

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