White-Collar Offenses in the Wholesale Meat Industry in Detroit

Criminological theory is deficient because a large category of known criminal offenses is excluded from study, namely, those offenses committed for a firm by the firm or its agents in the conduct of its business. Violations of Office of Price Administration regulations are criminal offenses, even though they may have been handled in civil proceedings, because "civil" and "criminal" sanctions are not analytically distinguishable. Wilfulness is not essential to the offenses under consideration. Other persons are necessarily directly party to the commission of these offenses, which makes them of greater importance to the community than the usual offenses involving larceny.