Organized crimes are violent criminal activities by a centralized group of criminals for illegal monetary gain. White collar crimes are nonviolent activities of criminals, who work like a white collar official rather than a typical criminal for unethical monetary gain through financial scams, frauds etc.
Comparison of organized crime and white collar crime:
Differences between organized crimes and white collar crimes:
Illegal monetary gain is the ultimate target of the offenders in both the crimes, but, organized crimes are mostly violent. Trafficking of human, weapons, narcotics, kidnapping, robbery, fall in the category of organized crimes. Whereas the white collar crimes are unethical financial gains, through nonviolent crimes. Financial frauds, corporate crimes, cheating, stealing etc are white collar crimes.
Organized crimes are committed on application of threats, physical forces but, the white collar criminals rely more on their intellect and apply technology instead of physical forces and offenders use their social, economic influences to commit a white collar crime.
White collar crimes are complex in nature, where the accused cannot be tracked only on the basis of fingerprints or the other circumstantial evidences like a common investigation of organized crime.
The victims of organized crimes are mainly individuals, whereas the victims of white collar crimes are generally organizations.
Organized crimes can be committed in a short duration, whereas the White collar crimes continue for a longer duration and during this period, a white collar crime can financially impair an entire society.
References:
The FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation. Organized Crime. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime, 12 June 2014.
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, Organized Crime, https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/index.html, 12 June 2014.
The FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, White-Collar Crime, http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/whitecollarcrime, 12 June 2014.
