WHITE COLLAR CRIMES

White Collar Crimes

White Collar Crimes

Introduction

Historically, offenses have been committed by the individuals belonging to different segments of the society. These individuals include, people form powerful, and respected part of the society. However, it wan until the year 1939, when the term of white collar crime was officially coined in order to refer to the crimes that are committed by the government, and other professional employees in the line of their duty. This term white collar crime was coined by American sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland. He defined white collar crime as the crime that is committed by a person with high socioeconomic status, the one who violates the laws to regulate their professional activities. These laws include, in addition to certain sections of the Criminal Code, the following federal regulations and other similar laws in several states such as; antitrust law, the law of the Federal Trade Commission, the law of Interstate Commerce Commission, the Law of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Act, laws governing advertising, patents, trademarks and copyrights, and some of the special regulations for wartime. One could differentiate the white collar criminal of the person with a low socioeconomic status that violates the habitual criminal or specific standards that affect trade, and secondly it may differ from the person with high socioeconomic status who violates habitual criminal code in areas that have nothing to do with their professional occupations (Sutherland, 1983, pp.45-56).

The person of high socioeconomic status who commits crimes, such as murder or adultery, which have nothing to do with your professional duties, is excluded from the group of white collar criminals, and not fundamentally different in any other significant aspect, of the person with low socioeconomic status who commits the same crimes. The assumption on which this concept is based on white collar crime is that this crime differs from others in the way in which the law is effective, but is related to them in the genetic process that causes criminal behavior. Another term that could be defined as an overlap of the term white collar crime is the corporate crime. Corporate crime refers to the crimes that are committed either by a corporation, or by an individual that is acting on behalf of the corporation, or any other business entity. However, corporate crime could not be referred to as the negative behaviors of the corporation, because of the fact that laws caries (Piquero, & Benson, 2012).

According to the theory of white collar law of Sutherland stated that it is mostly the minnows that get punished for their criminal acts, while whales and sharks go unnoticed. He further stated that the law is like a spider web, it's made for flies and for smaller types of insects, so to speak, but the big bumblebees break. When the technicalities get in my way, I've always known them away with ease. Civil laws are as cobwebs that hunt flies and let the elements over the cross ...