The opportunities for workplace deviance via cyber technology or \u201cWhite-Collar\u00a0
Cybercrime\u201d according to Payne\u2019s 2018 publication White-Collar Cybercrime: White-Collar\u00a0
Crime, Cybercrime, or Both? have been created due to the evolution and integration of cyber\u00a0
technology within the modern workplace. According to Payne, although few researchers have\u00a0
explored workplace cybercrime, our current understanding of white-collar crime and cybercrime\u00a0
is potentially limited due to failing to consider the overlap between the two (2018). The use of\u00a0
computers in the workplace have become commonplace and as a result so has the opportunity for\u00a0
\u201cComputer related\u201d white-collar crime (Payne 2018). What hasn\u2019t become commonplace,\u00a0
however, is our empirical understanding about cybercrimes within the workplace (Payne 2018).\u00a0
According to Payne, it is imperative to achieve this understanding in order to determine an\u00a0
appropriate approach to respond via white-collar crime strategies, cybercrime strategies, or other\u00a0
methods (2018).\u00a0
Payne describes that there is a high \u201cdark figure\u201d in both the cybercrime and white-collar\u00a0
crime categories and defines these types of crimes as those \u201cthat cannot be detected without a\u00a0
high level of investigation\u201d (2018). Basically, our current system of investigation is still trying to\u00a0
catch up to the effects that the domination of computer technology has had on our society. This\u00a0
\u201cDark figure\u201d as well as the widely disputed definitions of \u201ccybercrime\u201d and \u201cwhite-collar crime\u201d\u00a0
contribute to these types of crimes being underrepresented and unreported (Payne 2018). Cyber\u00a0
technology has given rise to opportunities within the workplace for white collar crimes such as\u00a0
corporate crime (price gouging, false advertising), crime in the economic system (insider trading)\u00a0
and cybercrimes such as online fraud and digital piracy (Payne 2018). It goes without saying that\u00a0
our attention to (and the study of) the relationship between the loosely defined topics of\u00a0
\u201ccybercrime\u201d and \u201cwhite-collar crime\u201d should be a primary focus as cyber technology continues\u00a0
to envelop our society.\u00a0
References\u00a0
Payne, B. K. (2018). White-Collar Cybercrime: White-Collar Crime, Cybercrime, or Both?\u00a0
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 19(3), 16\u201332.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The opportunities for workplace deviance via cyber technology or \u201cWhite-Collar\u00a0Cybercrime\u201d according to Payne\u2019s 2018 publication White-Collar Cybercrime: White-Collar\u00a0Crime, Cybercrime, or Both? have been created due to the evolution and integration of cyber\u00a0technology within the modern workplace. According to Payne, although few researchers have\u00a0explored workplace cybercrime, our current understanding of white-collar crime and cybercrime\u00a0is potentially limited… <\/p>\n