In 1939 Edwin was the first who introduced White Collar Crime. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1913. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining white-collar crime and differential association, a general theory of crime and delinquency.
He is considered one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century. Edwin Hardin Sutherland (Aug– October 11, 1950) was an American sociologist.