Discuss (b) Diffuse victim

Socio-economic crime is crime committed through the legitimate economy's machinery — by persons of respectability-and-status, in their professional-or-business capacity, or by organised groups operating for profit through economic channels. The concept's parents: Sutherland's "white collar crime" (the 1939 coinage — the crime in the suite, not the street) and the organised-crime scholarship (the crime as enterprise). The umbrella's breadth: the economic offences (tax, banking, securities), the consensual-and-victimless trades (drugs, trafficking), the corrupt faces (bribery, fraud), and the organised groups' profit crimes — the unifying idea: crime through-and-against the economy-and-society's structures, rather than against the individual person directly.