Economic Crimes 

Also known as "White-collar crime" is a financially motivated, economic, non-violent crime committed for illegal monetary gain. Within the field of criminology, the term "white-collar crime" was initially defined by Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (1939). E. Sutherland was a proponent of Symbolic Interactionism and believed that criminal behavior was learned from interpersonal interaction with others. A White-collar crime, therefore, overlaps with corporate crime because the opportunity for fraud, bribery, elaborate Ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, computer crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft and forgery are more available to white-collar employees. Greek legal system refers to these crimes as "economical crimes".