Criminological Approaches of White- collar Crimes

The explanation and categorization of white –collar crimes have been analyzed in an interdisciplinary manner by criminologists, lawyers, sociologists, management, etc. According to body metaphor, white-collar crimes are called phosphorus crimes. These crimes are often done by high and middle class people who are working in administrative and organizational departments. Considering damages resulting from middle-class crimes, such crimes have been reported forty times more than those of street crimes, few attempts have been made for their discovery and investigation. The purpose of the current paper was to investigate criminological approaches and typology of white –collar crimes. While using a documentation method, the present paper analyzed and explained the typology of white-collar crimes through positivism, constructionism and meta-theoretical approaches. Meanwhile, it investigated the relationship between these sorts of crimes and other social crimes.