Sutherland was considered to be one of the most influential criminologist of the 20th century. He play such a prominent role in the sense of defining and making “white-collar crime” an object of criminological study, he explained the different criminal behaviors through the relative influence of various geographic, economic, political, and sociological factors, and he expanded the scope of crime by shifting the focus to corporations and individuals in the upper socioeconomic classes. The lying, cheating, and stealing due to white-collar crime according to the FBI has cost the US more than 300
