Discuss efforts to control white-collar crime The government has used various law enforcement strategies to combat white-collar crime. Some involve deterrence, which uses punishment to frighten...

Discuss efforts to control white-collar crime The government has used various law enforcement strategies to combat white-collar crime. Some involve deterrence, which uses punishment to frighten potential abusers. Others involve economic or compliance strategies, which create economic incentives to obey the law. Most offenders do not view themselves as criminals and therefore do not seem to be deterred by criminal statutes. Although thousands of whitecollar criminals are prosecuted each year, their numbers are insignificant compared with the magnitude of the problem. Detection and enforcement are primarily in the hands ol administrative departments and agencies, including the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the Secret Service, U.S. Customs, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. On the state and local levels, law enforcement officials have made progress in a number of areas, such as controlling consumer fraud. One approach is to ensure compliance with business rules and law by threatening economic sanction. Another is to deter white-collar crime by punishing individual offenders and pulling them in prison as a deterrent to other would-be criminals.