What was the most under-reported White Collar Crime of 2009?
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It is a relitively new and very complex crime that is tough to track and crack. Complicating issues are the fact that the theft can cross multiple jurisdictions, and even international laws.
"Linda Foley, Executive Director of the Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego, California, explains that it's hard to determine the true number of identity thefts in the U.S. because victims don't always report it and, even when they do, law enforcement personnel in many states don't take police reports. Further complicating matters, identity theft is a crime that can occur in multiple jurisdictions. For example, if you live in Nashville, but the theft occurred in Albuquerque, which police office handles the report? And identity theft can be classified under a number of different penal codes—including elder abuse, false impersonation, credit card fraud, check fraud, or giving false information to a law enforcement agency. In most cases nobody's keeping solid statistics (if they're bothering to take police reports at all)."
http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/library/article.jsp?aid=identity_theft
For further reading . . .
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/
White Callar Crime convictions for July 2009 by type
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/white_collar_crime/monthlyjul09/gui/
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http://www.accountingweb.com/topic/tax/irs-whistleblower-program-government-program-works
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091105-724985.html
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There are a few ways to think of white collar crime. I always think of it as a "soft" data related crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_crime
"Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime has been defined by Edwin Sutherland as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation" (1939). Sutherland was a proponent of Symbolic Interactionism, and believed that criminal behavior was learned from interpersonal interaction with others. White-collar crime therefore overlaps with corporate crime because the opportunity for fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, computer crime, identity theft, and forgery is more available to white-collar employees."
The following article has probably the most definitive characteristics of 'white collar crime' I've come across - very handy for answering the question
http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/200/wcolcrim.html