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Hartung-Burgess debate  

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  • Criminologist Edwin Sutherland made it clear that white-collar crime would always be difficult to study. Whereas the study of violent and common crimes is aided by the existence of accepted, official databases full of valuable information, no similar collections of facts are available for those studying white-collar crimes. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Hartung-Burgess Debate]

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