Techno White Collar Crime

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Enterprise, Contrepreneurial, and Techno White Collar Crime
When you look at enterprise, contrepreneurial, and techno white collar crime you will find it to be a more of an admixture of white collar crime, or perhaps a more advanced form of white collar crime. These crimes may not always be considered white collar crimes to some, but whether or not a person chooses to take it as a white collar crime or not, these are some highly manifestations of crime (Friedrichs, 2010). The question is which one of the three types of crimes are the most contemptible?
Enterprise crime Involves illicit entrepreneurship and commerce. It provides the framework for organized and syndicated crime. Enterprise crime is ultimately the crimes of legitimate businesspeople, …show more content…

The classic example of contrepreneurial crime is the big con, which involves the activities of a con man, or a smooth-talking, quick thinking, though mostly nonviolent, criminal who takes money, from victims through acts of deception (Friedrichs, 2010). The activities of professional criminals sometimes referred to as con men or grifters, have often been subjects in films such as The Matchstick men and Catch Me If You Can. In the movies though these men are often portrayed as fun characters or even romanticized perhaps (Bethune, 2016). The attributes of professional criminals differ from the typical white collar criminal in that they possess highly developed skills for committing certain types of crimes, enjoy high status in the criminal world, and typically become involved in professional affiliations with other criminals of similar inclination (Bethune, 2016). This criminals often have no issues in being more likely to accept their status as criminals so they make a deliberate decision to engage in white collar crime, professional criminals being more likely to have decided to engage in their activities, as opposed to the typical white collar criminal who see a chance to make money and end up committing a crime (Bethune, 2016). One of the most popular types of con men crimes are Ponzi Schemes This scam is named after Charles Ponzi, who, in 1920 convinced thousands to invest in a scheme …show more content…

Common forms of technocrime include computer crime, identity theft, and telecommunications services theft. Technocrime includes any illegal or unethical treatment of secured information, hacking, identity theft, and certain types of unlawful usage of the Internet. Nearly everything these days has become dependent upon the use of technology, things ranging from banking, maps, phone calls, and other forms of communications (Friedrichs, 2010). We so much dependency on technology, and no signs of it slowing down, technocrime may be the worse of the three crimes covered in this paper (Friedrichs, 2010). A single computer virus can shut down an entire government, hacking a retail stores credit and debit database can lead to a massive reissue of credit cards and a fear of stolen credit. Entire bank accounts have been cleared out by hackers, and car accidents caused by hackers getting into automobile computer systems (Friedrichs,

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