Antecedents of white collar crime in organizations: A literature review (original) (raw)

Evaluation of Current Investigations and Future Directions in White-Collar Crime

Scholars International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice

Background: White-collar crime refers to illegal activities that individuals or organizations commit during business or professional activities. These crimes are often financially motivated and include embezzlement, fraud, bribery, money laundering, and insider trading. White-collar crime can have significant consequences for individuals, organizations, and society. Objectives: The objectives of research on white-collar crime may include understanding the motivations and behaviors of those who engage in such activities and identifying the organizational and societal factors. That contributes to the prevalence of white-collar crime and the development of new methods for detecting and preventing white-collar crime. Method: This review highlights and assesses recent (primarily during the past decade) contributions to white-collar crime theory, new evidence regarding the sentencing and punishment of white-collar offenders, and controversies surrounding crime prevention and control polic...

Making Sense of White-Collar Crime: Theory and Research

OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW, 2010

The field of white-collar/corporate crime has been studied by scholars from many disciplinary fields. Yet, the ambiguity and complexity of the subject, dearth ofprogram and policy evaluation, poor or inaccessible data and lack of systematic empirical research has precluded any consensus about its causes or what can be done to prevent and control it. Concern about the global financial crisis of 2008 and its association with fraudulent activities in the mortgage and securities markets has brought white-collar crime back to the forefront of criminological inquiry. New research-particularly evidence-based criminology and criminal justice and vignette studies of corporate crime-has provided insight into some of the longstanding debates in the field while also revealing new and interesting puzzles for scholars to explore. These new developments are summarized along with suggestions for new research on mortgage fraud, including the revitalization of a "criminogenic tier" approach to organizational actors, firms, and markets, and the use of network analysis as a means to map and measure key ties among fraudsters, network centrality, and reach.

Preventing and Intervening in White-Collar Crimes: The Role of Law Enforcement

Handbook of White-Collar Crime, 2019

This chapter analyzes the role of law enforcement authorities in preventing and intervening in white-collar and corporate crimes. We start by considering white-collar crime in the 21 st Century, thinking about what we know and what we need to know about such cases to inform prevention and intervention. We then raise some key analytical and practical questions in relation to 1) who or what should be the focus of prevention, 2) who has ownership of prevention measures, and 3) how we measure and evaluate the impacts of prevention. Our chapter is subsequently organized around these three key issues. We then consider types and sources of data that can inform prevention approaches towards white-collar crimes before concluding with discussion of the difficulties in analyzing the success of prevention strategies and reviewing what data is needed to inform evidence-based policymaking in this field.

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...

White Collar Crime: What It Is and Where It's Going

Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics Public Policy, 2014

We present this work to help clarify the concept of white collar crime, discuss what it has traditionally been perceived to be and what it is becoming in the age of computers, the Internet, and rapidly advancing technology. In the end, the reader will hopefully have a better understanding of the nature of white collar crime, its impact on our society and the direction in which it seems to be heading. We begin with a brief discussion of the term "white collar crime," first coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland, and further explored, refined, and redefined by a number of successors in various fields. We examine various definitions, as well as the reasons why so many different definitions exist, and discuss both efforts to unify these definitions and to work with terminology that means different things to different criminal justice stakeholders. We then move on to discussing the general shape of white collar crime in America, the relevant data for various types of activities that meet the criteria for at least some of the most prevalent white collar crime definitions, and how to interpret that data. Finally, we examine two areas of emerging concern in the field of white collar crime-social media and privacy.

White collar crime & its implications: review

This paper seek to demonstrate critical understanding of criminal law principles relevant to business activity including legal rules, policies, decisions and outcomes. This includes research, analysis, evaluation and applicable rules to business crime.

Executives’ knowledge of white-collar crime: learning to prevent criminal behaviour

Department of Leadership and Organization at the Norwegian School of Management. She publishes and teaches organizational learning, knowledge sharing and leadership in organizations and the police force. She has written several books on these topics. Petter Gottschalk is Professor of information systems and knowledge management in the department of leadership and organizational management at the Norwegian School of Management. Dr. Gottschalk has published several books and research articles on crime and policing. Hans Solli-Saether has a MSc degree from the University of Oslo and a PhD degree from the Norwegian School of Management. He has been the CIO of Norway Post and has several years of practical experience in management. Dr. Solli-Saether has published several books and research articles on outsourcing and IT management.