«White-collar» Crime in the «Criminal Society»: Problems of Sociological Analysis

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of «white-collar» crime in the Ukrainian realities. Discuesses the historical background and the reasons for the spread of «white-collar» crime in the Ukrainian society, and represented an attempt to clarify the situation. The analysis of the basis on which to base and played domestic «white-collar» crime. Focus on social phenomena such as privatization, corruption, economic crime. The author agrees with the existence in the domestic context of the new reality that occurs in the form of «criminal society». Thus, the entire society, somehow involved in criminal practices. In this case, the main actors of a given society are «white-collar» or those who own a particular resource – economic, political, administrative, power etc.