White collar crimes occur in organizations that lack a compliance culture. When organizations do not have accounting practices to check management’s business decisions, white collar crimes can be committed. White collar criminals tend to be people in authoritative positions (Ferrell, et al, 2013). The reason these type of people can commit these types of criminal acts are the lack of compliance. However, the person’s integrity plays a large role in whether or not a person would even try to cheat the organization. Leaders of organizations must surround themselves with people that are willing to speak up at anything that looks wrong (Olejarz, 2016). When an organization has an ethical culture, people tend to follow the rules more.
