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Such statements now seem commonplace to the student of white-collar and corporate crime, yet these were penned not long after Edwin Sutherland defined white-collar crime as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation,”3 and long before the term “corporate crime” became normal usage in criminology. Written in 1944 and 1947, respectively, they refer to the difficulties of understanding and judging the international crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II—acts we now know as war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, although then the terminology was slightly different. For the purpose of this article, I shall use the term “international crimes” as synonymous with the three categories in current use.
‘The peculiarity of the role of perpetrator […] consists in this: that he acts not only himself but also with the help of a complex executive machinery. […] These are not some Tom, Dick, or Harry of unknown lineage, without hearth or home. These are titled personages, upper classes […]’ 1 ‘A multitude of enthusiastic collaborators, at all levels of the […] hierarchy had cooperated in organizing and executing [the crimes].’ 2
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Brants, C. (2007). Gold-Collar Crime. In: Pontell, H.N., Geis, G. (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34111-8_14
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