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Two generations of Sutherland’s white-collar war crime data and beyond

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Edwin Sutherland published his famous White Collar Crime in 1949 where he excoriated leaders of American firms for their war crimes. The names of all corporations were deleted, however, from the book by the threat of legal action. The unabridged version was published in 1983 when the Sutherland files at Indiana University were unsealed. These files can now be compared with both the 1949 and 1983 book, as well as with other evidence of corporate war crimes during World War II.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to the staff at the Lilly Library at Indiana University for providing microfiche copies of the Sutherland white-collar crime files, to Karl Kunkel for arranging for the conversion of the data from microfiche to CD-ROM, and to Jeanne Galliher for critical editing of the manuscript.

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  1. Missouri University-Columbia, 312 Middlebush Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211-6100, USA

    John F. Galliher

  2. University of Missouri-St. Louis, 601 SSB Tower, St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA

    Teresa J. Guess

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Galliher, J.F., Guess, T.J. Two generations of Sutherland’s white-collar war crime data and beyond. Crime Law Soc Change 51, 163–174 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-008-9142-4

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