White Collar Crime In Canada

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White collar crimes are a major problem in the Canadian legal system and shows how those who are in a certain financial bracket often have the ability to be above the law. Due to the many different aspects of the white-collar crime there is an inability to properly define it to meet all the roles that it necessarily plays (Sheptycki, 2003). With that in mind, white-collar crimes are often seen as including the aspects and roles of violations of securities, having employee fraud and the laundering of money (Nurse, 2002). One of the main reasons behind the hidden aspects and less published notion of white collar crimes is due to it being mostly hidden, and it often not seen as such an adrenaline rush as the belief of urban street gangs and Mafia …show more content…

Corporate crimes was not necessarily seen as a public issue until the nineties when it was no longer just an issue in North America but a global concern, and this type of crime became a high concern during this time for this offence (Sheptycki, 2003). The implications and findings of corporate crime are often well hidden in the past and often take forensic accountants, accountants that use investigation skills in order to find certain aspects of corporate crime, for the investigations (Nurse, 2002). One of the major aspects of corporate crime is that of workplace safety training and market fraud unlike regular crimes or law offences this type of white collar corporate crimes have that its legally handled by educational and administrative measures (Comack, 2014). Unsurprisingly the age of those who participated in these white-collar crimes are typically between the ages of forty and have a variety in the way of sentencing (Bergeon & McKelvine,

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