Examples Of White Collar Crime

White collar crimes differ from traditional crimes. Society mainly base their point of views of the two from the perspective of media. Not only does media view the two as different the criminal justice also respond to white collars cases differently. There may be several theories behind the activities of white collars crimes. Williams, (2008) states, “The activities of interest to white-collar and corporate criminologists traverse the fields of law, economics, politics, and accounting, thus requiring a theoretical stance that is distinctly interdisciplinary in character.”
The Enron Scandal is an example of white collar crime on a corporate level. The Enron Organization committed accounting fraud by misleading investors and the government. The company essentially operated in gas and energy. The company became wealthy based on the marketing of its products and high stock prices. The greed of personal gain and to excel in competition led to absconding accounting files.
“The company’s initial success and ultimate failure
The methods used at Enron were the organizational structure set up to create the employee competition internally. Which in theory helped Enron select employees based on their aggressive behaviors.” This again coincided with the opportunity theory and separate futile ones. However, rationalization of the corruption theory emphasizes that values are important in the development of behavior. Which also contributed to the top-down behavior that was exhibited by the executives (Kulik, 2008). “The leadership of the organization is was the driving force of the unethical culture within the company that committed the criminal activities. (Kulik et al., 2008).” Therefore, there may not be just one theatrical example that will explain why the crimes were committed at