Use Of Offender-Based Approaches To White Collar Crime

Offender based approaches to white collar crime is define with emphasis as an essential characteristic of crime dealing with high social status, power, and respectability of the actor. A strength to this type of approach allows the social stigmatism of the “criminal” offender to be destabilized in the public view. Drawing attention to the ideation that people within high society or social standing can and will commit crime. This approach while breaking the social norms of antisocial behavior lends itself to weakness within the theory. While using social standing and status as part of the approach, researchers have a challenging time translating that in to useable data for comparison. The actual cost of the crime can’t always be measured