Four scenarios involving criminal activity are presented below. According to Sutherland's definition, which one of them would he call a white-collar crime?
A) A corporate executive has too much to drink at an office party. While he is driving home intoxicated, he strikes a pedestrian causing serious physical harm.
B) A teenager who works for a fast food chain doesn't charge his friends for the food they order when they come into the restaurant. He just gives them the food for free.
C) An executive for a computer software company learns that his company is going to be bought out by Microsoft, which will raise the price for the company's stock significantly. In violation of securities law, he buys his own company's stock on the basis of this information before it is made available to the general public.
D) A man who does odd jobs fixing up houses promises to install a new roof for an elderly couple who have a leaky roof on their house. Instead of installing the new roof, however, he just adds a few new shingles, plugs some of the holes with tar, and takes off with the couple's money.
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