AC1.1 – Analyse different types of crime
White Collar Crime
Details of Criminal Offence:
White Collar crime is non-violent crime involving deceit or concealment where the perpetrator aims
to avoid losing or gain money to obtain an advantage in terms of personal or business gain.
Types of victims:
Victims range as typically with White Collar Crime there are a vast number of different victims. They
are exploited by the offenders and in bigger scale White Collar Crimes the victims are usually
wealthy people investing in the scams.
Type of offender:
Usually, offenders have high status and are exploiting their victims for gain financially, either for
their business or for themselves.
Level of public awareness:
White Collar Crime is commonly named as “invisible,” public awareness is relatively low. This is for
many reasons. WCC is underreported because of its extreme complexity. The offenders are also
usually high status which means many are disregarded, and a lot of White-Collar Crime are de-
labelled as breaches of regulations rather than labelled as White-Collar Crime.
Criminal and/or deviant:
White Collar Crimes are both. They are criminal as all the offences that fall under White Collar Crime
break criminal law but are also deviant as they separate from societies norms as the offender’s break
societies trust and often involve betrayal and deception.
Case studies:
Bernie Madoff was part of a large-scale Ponzi Scheme, eventually stealing over 65 billion dollars from
investors at his company, Nasdaq for his own personal gain. He was eventually caught out by Harry
Markopoulos and arrested, with 150 years in prison. General examples of these are: Ponzi schemes,
fraud, embezzlement and money laundering.
Moral Crimes
Details of criminal offence:
Moral crimes are against the standard of morality and norms in society. They are acts that deviate
from societies moral code and are highly frowned down upon because of this. Examples of these are
prostitution, vagrancy or gambling.
Type of victim:
These crimes are usually victimless, but it differs from crime to crime. In many cases, the victim is the
same as the offender, such as cases of prostitution. In cases like gambling or other crimes, the
victims can be the offender’s family or those close to them such as friends or partners.
Type of offender:
White Collar Crime
Details of Criminal Offence:
White Collar crime is non-violent crime involving deceit or concealment where the perpetrator aims
to avoid losing or gain money to obtain an advantage in terms of personal or business gain.
Types of victims:
Victims range as typically with White Collar Crime there are a vast number of different victims. They
are exploited by the offenders and in bigger scale White Collar Crimes the victims are usually
wealthy people investing in the scams.
Type of offender:
Usually, offenders have high status and are exploiting their victims for gain financially, either for
their business or for themselves.
Level of public awareness:
White Collar Crime is commonly named as “invisible,” public awareness is relatively low. This is for
many reasons. WCC is underreported because of its extreme complexity. The offenders are also
usually high status which means many are disregarded, and a lot of White-Collar Crime are de-
labelled as breaches of regulations rather than labelled as White-Collar Crime.
Criminal and/or deviant:
White Collar Crimes are both. They are criminal as all the offences that fall under White Collar Crime
break criminal law but are also deviant as they separate from societies norms as the offender’s break
societies trust and often involve betrayal and deception.
Case studies:
Bernie Madoff was part of a large-scale Ponzi Scheme, eventually stealing over 65 billion dollars from
investors at his company, Nasdaq for his own personal gain. He was eventually caught out by Harry
Markopoulos and arrested, with 150 years in prison. General examples of these are: Ponzi schemes,
fraud, embezzlement and money laundering.
Moral Crimes
Details of criminal offence:
Moral crimes are against the standard of morality and norms in society. They are acts that deviate
from societies moral code and are highly frowned down upon because of this. Examples of these are
prostitution, vagrancy or gambling.
Type of victim:
These crimes are usually victimless, but it differs from crime to crime. In many cases, the victim is the
same as the offender, such as cases of prostitution. In cases like gambling or other crimes, the
victims can be the offender’s family or those close to them such as friends or partners.
Type of offender:
