RT Article
T1 White-collar crime: Detection and neutralization in religious organizations
JF International journal of police science & management
VO 19
IS 2
SP 120
OP 126
A1 Gottschalk, Petter 1950-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764353978
AB Policing religious organizations presents challenging situations. When there is suspicion of financial crime by white-collar criminals, secrecy and trust represent obstacles to law enforcement. This article discusses the lack of detection and neutralization techniques often applied in religious organizations. There may be too much trust, too much freedom, too much individual authority, too little scepticism, too much loyalty and too little control of the financial side in religious organizations. There may be no empirical evidence for the proposition that religion has a deterrent effect on crime, although sociologists and criminologists have long recognized potential links between religious belief and delinquent behaviour.
K1 Law Enforcement
K1 crime detection
K1 crime neutralization
K1 Policing
K1 Religious Organization
DO 10.1177/1461355717711453