WHITE COLLAR CRIMES AND EXISTING LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN INDIA
Keywords:
Criminal Justice, White Collar Crimes, Globalisation, Corruption, Offender, Law EnforcementAbstract
The criminal justice system of the country provides for criminality in white collar
crimes. The mere existence of such laws has a symbolic impact on the society. Though
criminal sanctions have been imposed for violation of white collar crimes but the strategy has
not worked as a deterrent or a tool for achieving compliance. Both the substance and the
picture of policing be lost on the off chance that crook and withdrawn movement isn't
perceived, forestalled and indicted .If the society is protected from traditional crimes then
people get freedom to heighten their level of social and economic interaction thus enhancing
their quality of life and if the society is free from white collar crimes then it adds reliability to
this quality. To disregard middle-class wrongdoing is to undermine the trustworthiness of our
general public, similarly as we overlook the security of society when we neglect to adapt to
normal wrongdoing. Deferring or delaying activity in middle-class violations is a surrender of
policing. The High Court once said the nature of a country's civilization can be to a great
extent estimated by the strategies it involves in the implementation of criminal regulation.
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