WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT

Abstract

White-collar crime is a type of criminal activity that has become a serious threat to the individual, the state and society as a whole. As an ubiquitous form of criminal activity, it has not been sufficiently researched, especially in relation to the significance of its impact on the economic stability of a country. The reaction of society to this form of crime is the core issue, which closes the circle of adequate scientific knowledge of this phenomenon. There is not even a legal definition of the term ‘white collar’ while no other existing content of the term is fully and universally accepted. This phenomenon is a social problem whose study requires an interdisciplinary theoretical approach: law, economics, sociology, psychology and criminology and criminalistics. With a number of scientific methods starting from the theoretical-empirical method, the comparative and the analytical method, an analysis of available literature and individual legal solutions was made, from which they read certain conclusions. The objective of this work includes clarifying of the ‘white collar’concept, classification of its basic etiological and phenomenological elements, social reaction through socially-unacceptable approach, as well asascientific position of analysis of the concept, its appearance andits socio-economic impact on the stability of a state.