White collar crime refers to nonviolent financial crimes committed by business and government professionals. It was first defined by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as crimes committed by respectable, high-status individuals through their occupations. Examples include fraud, bribery, embezzlement, and tax evasion. Factors that contribute to white collar crime include a culture of prioritizing profits over ethics, opportunities for abuse that certain jobs provide, and a lack of adequate deterrence through law and punishment. Reducing white collar crime requires greater public awareness, stronger regulatory laws and penalties, and victims being vigilant against being taken advantage of.

1. Presented By
Md Shohag Prodhan (16107053)
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White Collar Crime

2. White-collar crime refers to financially motivated
nonviolent crime committed by business and government
professionals.
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3. Within criminology, it was first defined by
Sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime
committed by a person of respectability and high
social status in the course of his occupation"
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BRIEF HISTORY

4.  He used it to set a line between white collar crimes and
regular street crimes
 White-collar crime is generally new and it came about
around the time following the Great Depression.
 People wanted to gain their money and social status back.
Also many people were angry at the economy status and
felt they were underpaid.
This led to the development of white collar crime
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5.  Bank Fraud
 Blackmail
 Credit Card Fraud
 Bribery
 Cellular Phone Fraud
 Computer fraud
 Currency Schemes
 Embezz1ement
 Racketeering
 Tax Evasion
 Weights and Measures
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6.  Money Laundering
 Kickback
 Health Care Fraud
 Insider Trading
 Investment Scheme
 Larceny/Theft
 Securities Fraud
 Telemarketing Fraud
 Welfare Fraud
 Environmental Schemes
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7. Medical Profession: White collar
crimes which are commonly
committed by persons belonging
to medical profession include
issuance of false medical certificates,
helping illegal abortions, secret
service to dacoits by giving expert
opinion leading to their acquittal
and selling sample-drugs and
medicines to patients or chemists.
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8. Engineering:
In the engineering profession underhand dealings with
contractors and suppliers, passing of sub-standard works
and materials and maintenance of bogus records of
work-charged labor are some of the common examples
of white collar crime
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9. Educational Institutions:
 Yet another field where white collar criminals operate with
impunity are the privately run educational institutions in
this country.
 The governing bodies of these institutions manage to secure
large sums by way of government grants or financial aid by
submitting fictitious and fake details about their
institutions.
 The teachers and other staff working in these institutions
receive a meagre salary far less than what they actually sign
for, thus allowing a big margin for the management to grab
huge amount in this illegal manner.
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10. Bad general public mentality
 Ruthlessness in making money has became an important part of
the business code.
 A person who reports his personal property honestly is regarded as
a abnormal person.
 This shows that the general public mentality has accepted a
particular common level of dishonesty.
 Popular feeling incline to the belief that a lawyer cannot be
successful if completely honest and therefore most of them accept.
 Pick pocket is beaten to death but business man commits crime
with immunity.
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11. Opportunity
 Unemployment plays hardly any role in the case of white collar crime.
 The white collar crime is a challenge to the concept that absence of
employment is helpful to crime and presence of employment is useful to
non crime.
 White collar crime are closely related to opportunity.
 An unemployed person cannot commit this crime.
 You cannot commit a computer fraud unless you have access to computer .
 You cannot evade tax unless you have a taxable income.
 You cannot indulge in insider trading unless you have access to secrete
information.
 You cannot indulge in bank embezzlement unless you work for the bank.
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12. I. Creating public awareness through the media
and press and other audio visual aids.
II. Special tribunal should be constituted with
power to award a serious sentence.
III. Stringent regulatory laws and drastic
punishment for white collar criminals, may help
in reducing these crime.
IV. We have to proper use the law.
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13.  The real solution to this problem is going to have to
come from the people who are being affected by it.
 They are the most likely to stop it.
 They cannot let anyone take advantage of them
anymore
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