The world of crime demonology once seemed so simple. There was the Underworld, consisting of full-time criminals emanating principally from the ‘dangerous classes’ who, depending on particular conditions, might form ‘organised crime’ groups ranging from Mafias to looser collaborative networks. At the other end of the social spectrum there was the primarily law-abiding Upperworld, whose elite black sheep might occasionally stray. Sutherland sought to puncture this bifurcated model intellectually by his stress on criminality as learned behaviour and assertion that white-collar crime was...