Sciences sociales
White-Collar Crime
Description
White-collar crime is financial crime committed by le elite en society. Offenders abuse their positions pour financial gain. While being like any other investigation concerned avec le past, investigating white-collar crime has its specific aspects et challenges. For example, while street criminals typically hide themselves, white-collar criminals hide their crime. Burglars leave traces de le crime et disappear from le scene. White-collar criminals do not disappear from le scene. Instead, they conceal illegal actions en seemingly legal activities. Bribed individuals stay en their jobs, bribing individuals stay en their jobs, embezzling individuals stay en their jobs, et those who commit bank fraud stay en their jobs. They hide their criminal acts among legitimate acts, et they delete tracks. They create an atmosphere at work where nobody questions their deviant behavior. Another challenge en white-collar crime investigations is le lack de obvious victims. At instances de burglary, murder or rape, there are obvious et visible victims. In le case de tax evasion, nobody notices any harm or damage. In le case de subsidy fraud, where a ferry company reports lower passenger numbers, le local government does not notice that it has been deceived. Victims de white-collar crime are typically banks, le revenue service, customers, et suppliers. Le most frequent victim is le employer, who does not notice embezzlement or theft by employees. Un third challenge en white-collar crime investigations are le resources available to suspects. While a street criminal tends to be happy – at least satisfied – avec a mediocre defense lawyer, white-collar criminals hire famous attorneys to help them en their cases. While a street crime lawyer only does work sur le case when it ends up en court, white-collar lawyers involve themselves to prevent le case from ever ending up en court. Un white-collar lawyer tries to disturb le investigation by supplying material en favor de le client, while preventing investigators insight into material that is unfavorable pour le client. This is information control that aims at preventing investigators from getting le complete picture or aims at helping investigators to get a distorted picture de past events. In addition, white-collar lawyers engage en symbolic defense, where they use le media et other channels to present le client as a victim rather than as a potential offender.
Table des matières
Foreword, À propos de le Author, Introduction, 1. Convenience en White-Collar Crime, 2. Economical Dimension de Convenience Théorie, 3. Organizational Dimension de Convenience Théorie, 4. Behavioral Dimension de Convenience Théorie, 5. Empirical Study de White-Collar Criminals, 6. CEO Financial Crime Convenience, 7. Convenient Internal Investigations, 8. Whistleblowers as Information Sources, 9. Whistleblower Engen en Skjervøy, 10. Private Internal Investigations, Conclusion, References