A class of property crimes that are usually job-related, such as embezzlement, bribery, and consumer fraud.

Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime has been defined by Edwin Sutherland "...as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation." Sutherland was a proponent of Symbolic Interactionism which examines the construction of personal identity through individual and group interactions. In defining the Differential Association Theory, he believed that criminal behaviour was learned from interpersonal interaction with others.