White Collar Crimes

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"The official version of law - what the legal world would have us believe about itself - is that it is an impartial neutral and objective system for resolving social conflict" (Naffine 1990, p. 24). The official version of law is blindly followed by today’s modern legal system. The legal system is supposed to act in a just manner that is committed to equality for all that it ensures that everyone is treated the same in the eye of law. It is inaccurate to believe that the official version of law is impartial, neutral and objective. The paper will be discussing the four arguments of how white-collar crime, wrongful conviction, gender and racial profiling indicates that the official version of law is flawed in the Canadian perspective.

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9). In general, it is an ambiguous and broad term that allows the flawed assumption of the official version of law to not be impartial, neutral and objective in white-collar crime. The most common activities in white-collar crime are done by an individual in a trusted position that commits crimes of embezzlement, industrial espionage and the bribing of government officials (Kempa, 2010). The common four types of white-collar crime in Canada is theft of assets, fraud in the procurement process, accounting fraud and cybercrime (g news). In Canada, there is a lack of structure to the complex market processes that it is not surprising the legal, regulatory and institution that has grown up with capitalism in the industrial revolution is as equally complicated (Kempa, …show more content…

The effectiveness is judged by its ability to investigate and detect crime to identify the offender to give the appropriate punishment. Its fairness is judged by the efforts to give the resources, such as effective legal representation at all points of the pre-trial and trial to ensure a balance between the offender and the state. A wrongful conviction undermines the legitimacy of the criminal justice system is when a “person is punished for an offence he or she did not commit and the actual perpetrator of the crime goes free” (Canada, 1992, p. 2). Causing the official version of law to be flawed by it not being impartial, neutral or objective, but biases exist within the all levels of systems in the police, the crown counsel, the judge and the

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