4.3 Nature and Characteristics of White Collar Crime

1. The respectability-and-trust — the offender's position as the crime's instrument. 2. The deception's modus — the concealment (no gun — the ledger). 3. The diffuse victim — the consumers, investors, treasury (the harm's statistics). 4. The magnitude — the scale's enormity (the street crime's dwarfing). 5. The complexity-and-specialisation — the specialist's crime (the lawyer's, accountant's, tech's tools). 6. The respectability's shield — the detection-and-prosecution's difficulty (the negotiation's culture: the fines-vs-prison). 7. The legitimacy's camouflage — the borderline's grey (the aggressive tax position vs evasion; the sharp business vs fraud).