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Automakers and Dealers: A Study of Criminogenic Market Forces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

William N. Leonard  and
Marvin Glenn Weber
William N. Leonard
Affiliation:
Hofstra University
Marvin Glenn Weber
Affiliation:
Mount Marty College
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That the American culture contains criminogenic elements leading to blue-collar crime, white-collar crime and noncriminal exploitation has been recognized by sociologists. Sutherland (1949: 9) defined a white-collar crime as one “committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his legitimate occupation.” White-collar crime included such acts as false and deceptive advertising, mislabeling of goods, price fixing, selling adulterated goods, violating weights and measures statutes, performing illegal operations (by doctors), fee-splitting (by lawyers), and others. Thus crime could no longer be defined solely as the illegal activity of blue-collar, low-class and pathological persons, but extended to all classes, with the prestige group at the top setting a pattern of lawlessness reflected and emulated by subgroups.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , February 1970 , pp. 407 - 424
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Copyright © 1970 by the Law and Society Association.

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