BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF "WHITE COLLAR" AS A HIGHLY PROFILE TYPE OF CRIME
Keywords:
Social science, Criminal, white collar, Characteristics, LawAbstract
In essence, white-collar crime is defined as a violation of criminal law. Moreover, defining white-collar crime as a moral or ethical violation is usually based on the principles of natural law that assess behaviors or activities in relation to their attributes of violating the ethical principles of a given public or group. The actors in this type of crime are usually high-profile figures in society, politics, the economy and the economy in general. In particular, they may be members of the highest strata of society associated with certain services, such as banking, insurance, medicine, police, customs, inspection service, tax service, railways, education, wholesale ... more precisely, almost and that there is no area of society in which this extremely harmful phenomenon can not take root and flourish. Corruption is also a feature of white-collar crime. White-collar crime, corruption and organized crime are socially harmful phenomena which, although overlapping to a significant extent, still retain certain characteristics. Corruption is an integral part of the activities used by criminals of this type, but it can also exist independently of them in other segments of society. If seen as a white-collar crime, it would either be an occupation-related crime and often cause less damage than is actually concealed, and may have a simpler character, in order to generate additional income. Today, in many countries around the world, white collar crime is a serious problem that significantly damages the economy and the economy of individual countries. In addition, the economic consequences are not the only ones. Namely, in this paper, the basic characteristics of white-collar crime were presented, and in addition to that, profiling of actors who participate in criminal schemes in this type of crime was done, so it can be easily concluded that these are people who have the most high political and economic positions as well as the power to act. This paper analyzes and explains the basic characteristics of white collar crime as a form of organized crime.
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