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Social Awareness Needed to Curb White Collar Crimes

by Syed Zinat All
White collar crimes and corruptions are very much there In our land as in many others. It will not be out of place to say that moral degradation spreading through the scnews of the society even doesn't spare responsible and dependable businessmen. There appear to be a general breakdown of effective social control over corrupt practices. We cannot also disagree with one who poignantly observes the truth that criminals get off while righteous people are never paid anything for being good. Instead he has to pay a lot for his goodness where,crimes in the open streets, drinking bouts, gambling, drug trafficking delinquency and vandalism are on the increase than being contained. '
Judging from this angle, the need for observance of a morality week to recover illegal arms and ammunitions from muselemen and miscreants in order to create a congenial situation throughout the country is immense. Though it was long over due, still the morality week has an added Importance now in view of the ensuing elections. The relevant authorities should at this time also feel the need for attracting the public attention to the subject. The effort will undoubtedly produce some results. It may give us an opportunity to make the entire society realize through holding of seminars and discussions and writings in the media and talks over T.V. and radio, that with-
out the commonman's positive abhorrence of crime and Immorality only |aw enforcing bodies cannot cope with this regrettable national situation.
A great leap Is needed to overcome this great social danger that we face to-day. We must gird up our loins against this.
At tfils hour of national transition, political parties, government machineries tn collaboration with the common people should launch an united effort to recover the illegal arms and ammunitions from the miscreants and free the nation of vandalism to create a congenial atmosphere for a free and impartial election
Hie recent mass-movement headed by all political parties and student community succeeded to overthrow the Ershad regime but the former President's stooges tn the administration are still active to foil the gained victory. At this hour, patience, perseverance, unity, faith, co-operation, good manner and behaviour amongst all political parties and students' community are badly needed to maintain a congenial situation for holding
free and fair election and thus to usher the long awaited democracy in the country.
We are to see facts boldly, combat vigorously the corrupt and stop malpractices once for all. Other wise, the only alternative Is chaos, confusion, troubles and eventual emergence of a society bene ficial to none.
Fortunately crimes enumerated above are still viewed as crime and those Indulge in them either suffer in law or face atleast some social stigma. They have a guilty conscience and in the inmost recesses of the heart, feel some sort of moral embarrassment. They are aware of their wrong doing to the extent thai generally they dp not come forward with any defensible excuses. These are not actually areas of moral erosion but more correctly areas of conscious moral flaws or lapses amounting to Indulgence in wrong acts viewed as such.
The real arena of moral erosion are cases of commfl-ment of many crimes, which are not consciously counted as crimes or only as trivial crimes or fringe corrup-tion of innocuous nature. . •
Sometimes these crimes serve not only individual but group interest and benefits accruing to individuals or groups arc of such high magnitude that they consider their benefactor who commits the crime, something like a demi-god.
Edwin H. Sutherland. American sociologist, refers to white-collar crimes as crimes that persons of respectability and high social status commit in the course of their occupations. We further maintains that white-collar crime is mainly a violation of trust. The examples of white-collar crimes are: misrepresentation In financial statements of a company, manipulation in the stock exchange, commercial bribery, bribery of public offi cials. short weights, misgrad ing of commodities, tax frauds and evasions, and so on.
These types of corruptions arc widely prevalent in our land as in many others. We seldom realize that financial loss to society from White-collar crimes is perhaps greater than the financial loss from crimes committed by the lower socio-economic class.
Financial loss is great, and
damage it causes to social morality Is far greater It ere ates distrust, and produces a chain reaction of chaos and confusion
Our newspapers are full of awful account, of white collar corruption in the land. Still the corruption continues Some are bold enough to assert their right to be bad. Some genuinely believe that circumstances had pushed them there and they now have right to be bad for sheer survival. Many make an open and honest confession. The push of poverty and awareness of Um ited opportunities, changing mores and values in which possession of money gives a man greatest social recognition and prestige, they argue, have led them to be corrupt.
Moreover the knowledge tha! violators of law on occasions evade punishment has emboldened them. Common people arc somewhat disrespectful of the law enforcing agencies because of their failure to combat and take all evil doers to task.
But toning up morality Is not the Job of police or court alone, they help the society to guard againsl anti-social ele-ments when their numbers are within limils. The multidimensional and generic corruption, which we face to-day, can be corrected only through vigor ous efforts of all good men at the home, the school, the places of warship and the government.