White Collar Crime

There were many definition of ‘White Collar Crime' The most common one is delimit by Sutherland in 1949 ‘ white collar crime are the crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.' Along with the change of society, people in high social status are not the main characteristic of the white-collar criminal. As for, there were magnanimous types of white-collar crime in nowadays society, such as Ghostwriting, crime in military, insider trading, Internet crime, police corruption, etc. As we can see that those crimes are stretch across different occupation and economic status, even a lower class citizen can commit a white-collar crime. As regard, those crimes were not always discovering in court or newspaper, why white-collar crimes like invisible in Hong Kong? Or police officers were lazy to find out those crimes? Or some powers made those crimes fade away? In this essay, it will use some case to illustrate ‘what difficulties are there in attempting to find out about and prosecute people for white-collar crime? (Brian, 2012)

Case study Timothy Tong's misconduct

As we can know that ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) is committed to fighting corruption through effective law enforcement, education and prevention to help keep Hong Kong fair, just, stable and prosperous. Investigate white collar crime is one of their mission, however the Ex-ICAC Chief Timothy Tong Hin-Ming use over $724,000 for buying gift in his 5 year term of office. In this case the major premise is that why this case will appear after he left office? Why that ICAC officer cannot find out this money abuse that was happened on their ‘Boss'? (Lai, 2013)