White-Collar Cybercrime: Evaluating the Redefinition of a Criminological Artifact

Abstract

This paper explores the cause and effect of cybercrime from the perspective of what has been termed white-collar cybercrime, providing a layered analysis of established theoretical models and typologies and evaluating these to determine where white-collar cybercrime might fit within the evolving discipline of cybercriminology and wider interdisciplinary social sphere. White-collar crime itself offers the rare example of a criminological theory that has the attributes of an artifact -establishing a distinct criminal offence type within law and criminal justice and entering mainstream knowledge and terminology within half a century of inception. Despite this, white-collar cybercrime is a relatively new concept for cyber criminological analysis and is currently a rarity within the academic literature. Thus, the piece primarily seeks to compliment and expand recent scholarship in offering further critical evaluation of an important emergent model. This is done in terms of its history, evolution, characteristics, position within social change theory, and via examination of some of the many policy, practice and security challenges that appear inherent to the modern networked workplace.

Technology, White-Collar Cybercrime, and White-Collar Crime: An Analysis of Utah’s White-Collar Crime Registry Data

“…A large body of research has been conducted on the topics of cybercrime and white-collar crime. To date, fewer studies have considered the overlap between the two bodies of crimes (Payne, 2018; Hamerton, 2020). Tracing the delineation of the concept, Hamerton (2020) cites concepts such as Parker’s “Computer-Related White-Collar Crime,” Friedrichs’s “technocrime,” and a handful of other scholars’ efforts to categorize computer offenses as types of white-collar crime.…”

“…To date, fewer studies have considered the overlap between the two bodies of crimes (Payne, 2018; Hamerton, 2020). Tracing the delineation of the concept, Hamerton (2020) cites concepts such as Parker’s “Computer-Related White-Collar Crime,” Friedrichs’s “technocrime,” and a handful of other scholars’ efforts to categorize computer offenses as types of white-collar crime. Despite these scholarly pursuits, research on the overlap between white-collar crime and cybercrime is notable for its absence.…”