Technology Will Increase Occupational Crimes

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Occupational crimes are crimes committed by an employee and can include individual corruption and payoffs, sweetheart contracts, embezzlement, and insider trading (Hagen, 2013). As technology has increased these crimes have become easier for individuals to commit yet at the same time it is technology has also given law enforcement the upper hand when it comes to discovering and convicting the criminals. Corruption is defined as when someone in a position of power takes advantage of someone or a group of people (Hagen, 2013). An example of corruption is in 1988 New York City health inspectors made restaurants pay for passing inspection reports (Hagen, 2013). Payoffs are another form of occupational crime. This payoff mentioned earlier was unavoidable if the restaurants wanted to continue doing business. Another form of occupational crime is sweetheart contracts. This happens when the individuals in charge of a labor group and the negotiators privately agree to a deal that is not in the best interest of …show more content…

For crimes of embezzlement, the criminal like Bernie Madoff uses bank account information and with the help of the internet can find ways to move money from one account and hide it in another. In the case of Martha Stewart, they also used the internet to quickly sell off her stocks so she wouldn’t lose money. On the other hand, technology assisted law enforcement in solving these crimes and convicting the individuals. Aside from occupational crimes technology plays a very large part in solving many other crimes. Child pornography is a terrible problem in our country thanks to the internet task forces can hunt down these perverts and stop them from hurting others. Technology has given us the ability to use fingerprints to locate and identify missing children. Technology lets our law enforcement officers know the criminal records of individuals before they approach the driver’s

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