ABSTRACT
If the number of white-collar criminal incidents since the year 2000 is any indication of the future, you, as a white-collar crime investigator, will be truly embarking upon a career in a growing field during an exciting time in history. From Enron and WorldCom to Martha Stewart and Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the past nine years have revealed that offenses such as fraud, embezzlement, and misuse of office are very much on the minds of both the media and the American public. Yet it is the concept of white-collar crime as the nexus to other forms of mala in se criminal activity, namely terrorism, that has prompted the enactment of broad, sweeping legislation which may ultimately change this nation’s entire system of justice from the American due process model of the past 230 years to a more centralized crime control model, such as the one employed in the former Soviet Union.
