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white-collar crime

financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals
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white-collar crime

Summary

white-collar crime is a type of crime[1]. It draws 1,145 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_crime category, ranking #24 of 61).[2]

Key Facts

  • white-collar crime is credited with the discovery of Edwin Sutherland[3].
  • white-collar crime's instance of is recorded as type of crime[4].
  • white-collar worker is named after white-collar crime[5].
  • white-collar crime is a type of criminality[6].
  • white-collar crime is a type of crime[7].
  • white-collar crime is the opposite of blue-collar crime[8].
  • white-collar crime's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Commercial crimes[9].

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Context

white-collar crime's instance of is recorded as type of crime[4].

Why It Matters

white-collar crime draws 1,145 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_crime category, ranking #24 of 61).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Discoverer or inventor → Edwin Sutherland
    Opposite of → blue-collar crime
    Instance of → type of crime
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007556016305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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