White-collar Crimes in Kashmir, J&K - A Systematic Review Study on White-collar Crime, Criminal Behavior and its Consequences (original) (raw)
This paper provides a detailed understanding behind the motives of people committing crimes. Researchers have named ―the people committing crime, where the crimes were minimal and confined to a particular area of administration‖ as Grass Eaters. People involved in white collar crimes and which has spread in almost all fields of business are termed as Meat Eaters. With the advent of technology and growth of education, white collar crimes are on the rise, being protected by professionals finding loopholes in the judiciary and support from the government indirectly. This has created a nexus where people from almost all walks of life have started forming group to do white collar crimes and being protected by professionals in law. This has lead to a situation where the small timers have become white collar criminals. Talking about the prevalence of white collar crimes in India, they are spreading like a rapid fire in every sphere of society. Though corruption, one of the species of white collar crimes, has been the most talked about issue in all spheres-social, economic and political, not much stringent steps/actions have been taken to curb this menace. Therefore the concern of this paper is to define white collar crime, study its historical development and formulate tentative solutions for eradicating the problem.
White-Collar Crime and The Legal Battle Against Deceit
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023
White-collar crimes, characterized by non-violent, financially motivated offences committed by individuals or entities in positions of trust, pose significant challenges for legal enforcement. This article provides a comprehensive overview of white-collar crimes, their categories, reallife case studies, the Indian law, and the multifaceted challenges faced in their control. Drawing inspiration from sociologist Edwin Sutherland's pioneering work, the article delves into the complex landscape of financial manipulation, corruption, cybercrime, and more. It explores the legal arsenal employed globally, including the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the Financial Action Task Force, highlighting their role in fostering international cooperation. The Indian legal landscape, encompassing the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Information Technology Act, and other regulations, is dissected to reveal its response to these offences. The article accentuates the importance of robust investigation techniques, digital forensics, and whistleblower protection in curbing white-collar crimes. Furthermore, it illuminates the challenges-ranging from the intricacies of evidence collection and corporate accountability to the transnational nature of offences-that beset legal enforcement. This synthesis encapsulates the holistic approach required to maintain the integrity of financial systems, protect stakeholders, and preserve societal trust in the face of ever-adapting white-collar crimes.
White collar crimes: A comprehensive analysis
International Journal of Judicial Law
White-collar crimes and economic offenses have increased alarmingly as a result of the modernization of crime, a disturbing trend that threatens to destroy the economy globally. White-collar crimes are admittedly very common in third-world nations and are thus by no means a new occurrence. The convergence of business and the law, as well as their interactions with innovation, moral discourse, and public perception, as well as the evolution of state regulations over time, are what give white-collar crimes their historical foundation. Since white-collar criminals were not viewed as the “typical criminals” who committed robbery, or murder, it will not be an exaggeration to argue that it took a long time for the law to recognize this form of the malicious act under the canopy of crime. Instead, there was a perception that white-collar offenses were victimless and less detrimental to society than crimes like robbery. White-collar offenders still face substantially lighter punishments tha...
9 Employee Theft and Staff Dishonesty
2006
The concept of ‘white collar crime’ was formally introduced during Edwin Sutherland’s presidential address to the American Sociological Society in Philadelphia in 1939. Sutherland (1949) used the term to help establish his new crime theory, differential association, by challenging the discipline of criminology to pay more attention to crimes ‘committed by persons of respectability and high social status in the course of his/her [legitimate] occupation.’ Today, ‘white collar crime’ has become an umbrella concept often used to describe a host of criminal behaviors, including but not limited to, illegal financial acts, deceitful or dishonest business practices, or abuses of state power. Scholars generally include employee theft, embezzlement, corporate crime, computer crimes and even political or governmental crimes as primary examples. While white collar crime continues to be used as a crime category, most scholars have developed more precise definitions that focus on specific types o...
An Author-Craft for White Collar Crimes with Some Charges on Such Mumbo Jumbo
White Collar Crimes denote those anonymous, impersonal, indirect and difficult to detect variety of crimes which have been tagged as concentrated in the upper classes and many a times countermanding the requirement of mens rea. These differ from the conventional crimes in the genesis, pertinacity of intent and responsibility, pedagogics of criminology and penal philosophy as well as the pattern of law enforcement, trial procedure and sanction applied. Hence, this research paper pinpoints at length the characteristics, types, causes as well as the convolution involved in dealing with these crimes. The approach of Indian judiciary has also been traced down to uncover its leaning towards the repression of such crimes. Furthermore, the research paper diagnoses the fact that when there have been plurative white collar crimes in the nature of accounting scandals, corporate crimes, financial frauds, industrial espionage, instances of money laundering, mortgage fraud, securities fraud, terr...
WHITE COLLAR CRIMES AND CRIMINAL LAW IN INDIA
This paper provides a detailed understanding about the newer form of crime as known white collar crimes. With the advent of technology and grouth of education, white collar crimes are on the rise, being protected by professionals in law findings loopholes in the existing law and judiciary and support from the government indirectly.
Studies in Sociology of Science, 2016
A quite interesting aspect of economics involves profits of illegal origin in a given society. One can talk about a certain spectrum of illegality ranging in various degrees incrementally, from untaxed informal economy, disregard of copyrights, black market, contraband, counterfeit money on to sheer criminal activities like embezzlement, swindling or forgery which target specific individuals; for the purpose of gain. In this respect, certain economic endeavors can be observed to go hand in hand with unscrupulous ways of victimizing people.