The Pros And Cons Of White Collar Crime

In our society, our security and protection is in the hands of the police. When there is a disturbance in society, we immediately dial 911 to get police officers in the scene of the crime for help. Police officers wear a uniform and a badge that symbolizes protection. Police officers are hired to enforce the laws that were placed, ensure the safety of civilians, and to detain anyone who does not follow or does not obey the laws. Although, people and the media might disagree that police officers abuse their power or racially profile people for no reason, I have not yet come across those situations, nor has my family. In fact, most of my experiences with the criminal justice system has been helpful. Furthermore, once criminals are detained, it

In Gerald Cliff and Christian Desilets’ journal (2014), White Collar Crime: What It Is And Where It’s going, they wrote "What is largely accepted as a given is that white collar crime is increasing, both in absolute numbers and compared to street crime” (p. 487) Some examples of white collar crimes are those that are portrayed in the daily news, the cases where a person has hacked into a store database and stole customers’ credit cards or even something as hacking a media website. Based on Cliff and Desilets’ information presented, courts have seen an increase and will continue to see an increase in white collar crimes. However, most of the media will continue to show the celebrity cases, since those are the ones that interest the people. Another way to show how crimes are processed through the court system is in the “wedding cake model” in Larry J. Siegel and John L. Worral’s textbook (2013), Introduction To Criminal Justice. In the “wedding cake model” (p. 20), it is shown which crimes are more occurring in the court system. First, the big named “celebrity cases” are at the top, followed by the serious felonies, then the less serious felonies, and lastly the misdemeanors. In this “cake model, the crime cases that occur the least are at the top and the highest crimes are at the bottom. Therefore, the model backs up the claim in saying that the court systems have to deal with misdemeanors more than major

Also, I am able to think about the many people who are sent to either a prison or jail. With that many people being sent to prison and jail, there will be a shortage of space, therefore inmates will be relocated to a room where they will be crowded. With that much overcrowding of inmates, there will be issues involving health and safety. The only way that that issue could be fixed would be by building more facilities where the inmates could be relocated or moved to when there is a shortage of