Lifestyle audits in white-collar crimes
Kotie Geldenhuys · Servamus online duty/Servamus · 2016
The majority of crimes are committed for some sort of financial gain. Pasco (2009) argues that the street mugger and the corporate executive have that much in common, but the major differences lie with the amount that there is to gain, the planning required, the intricacies of the crime and the tools needed to commit the crime. White-collar crime, according to Gillespie (2014), can be viewed as a subclass of fraud while Van Rooyen (2008) notes that it can include crimes such as income tax evasion,computer (cyber) crime, advertising fraud, crimes relating to abuse of confidentiality, share/investment fraud, credit card/cheque fraud, bankruptcy fraud and forgery. The concept of white-collar crime has many broad definitions which we are not going to discuss, but Silverstone and Sheetz (2007) write that these crimes are committed by individuals who manipulate accounts and take bribes at their place of work.