PINK COLLAR CRIME
PINK COLLAR CRIME

Summary/Abstract: The development of technology on the one hand contributed positive benefits of rapid availability of large number of data but on the other hand it made a major contribution to the rise in professional crime such as: organized crime, human trafficking, money laundering, corruption, narco-criminality, white collar crime and pink collar crime. In the new century, there is a tendency towards committing economic crime which covers financial crimes committed by banks, tax evasion, illicit capital heavens, money laundering, crimes committed by public officials (bribery, embezzlement, traffic of influences, etc.). Regarding our area of research we will specifically pay attention to corporate crime which overlaps with white collar crime, pink collar crime, organized crime and state corporate crime. Corporate crime can be defined as a type of white-collar crime committed by individuals within their legitimate occupations, for the benefit of their employing organization and pink collar crime which was popularized during the 1980s and describes embezzlement type crimes that typically were committed by females based on limited opportunity.

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