White Collar Crime Paper

The future has many aspects in store in term of white-collar crimes. The first characteristic of white-collar crime the future has in store is that if it continues to cost the United States billions of dollars each year, the U.S. justice department will develop new ideas and techniques to combat it. The second aspect the future also has is that Wall Street top executives will be held responsible for crimes committing within their corporation with or without their prior knowledge in the future because that is what politicians are now pushing for. For example, Hillary Clinton, when she was running for the 2016 presidential election, she proposed that if she becomes president, she would make sure that Wall Street top executives be held responsible for crimes committed within their organization. Similarly, with Elizabeth Warren, in the Wells Fargo scandal she is also talked about how corporate top executives should be held responsible. As she stated, “A resignation alone is not enough to assure proper accountability of Wells Fargo” (Warren, 2016). With that say, some measure would be taking by the justice department in the future to decrease on the level of white-collar crimes. …show more content…
For instance, in 2015, researchers estimated that 43 percent of the world population are using the Internet. A year later, the number increased from 43 percent to 47 percent (Taylor, 2016). The fact that more people are using the Internet, the more technocrimes, and other form of white-collar crimes would be committed. As it is stated on the text (Trusted Criminals), “Computers and other forms of modern technology play an increasingly central role in many white-collar crimes, and this role will surely expand in the future” (Friedrichs, 2010). With that say, certain form of white-collar crimes will continue to be increasing as world population getting to involve more on the