WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AS PART OF ORGANIZED CRIME

Abstract

Everything changes and nothing stands still. Criminality is no exception to this conclusion.
Namely, over the years different perceptions of criminality have changed its emergent forms,
and forms of manifestation, perpetrators of crimes, the object of the protected good that is
violated with the performance of the crime, etc. For a long time in theory, but in practice also,
the opinion was that, as a rule, members of the lower social class appear as perpetrators of
crimes. During the 40s years of the last century, the notion of "white-collar crime" appeared
in American criminology. This term became synonymous for the crime committed by rich,
privileged members of the social community. Within the "white-collar" crime included all
forms of economic and financial crime, such as bribery, tax evasion, falsification of tax
books, fake bankruptcies, etc, that is, a group of crimes that can be committed by privileged
perpetrators by exploiting their own position, reputation, power, and influence. This paper
will look at the criminal phenomenology and etiology of this unconventional criminality, the
perpetrators of these types of crimes, the degree of danger and the consequences of the
execution of the acts, but I will try to answer also whether this type of criminality and its
perpetrators are under the protection of the law, i.e. the state. Consequently, the question
arises of the relationship of the "white-collar" crime with the government in the state. If there
is an opinion in the society that there is a phenomenon of impunity for perpetrators of such
crimes, we cannot speak for a state of law and the rule of law. Obviously, there is the rule of
the law of force than the rule of laws. From all this, it can sense that this is a specific issue
that deserves due consideration for its elaboration.