The occurrence of white color crimes and the inability of the society to protect itself from their adverse effects have led to the government coming up with laws to protect the society and deal with perpetrators of these crimes. Various law enforcement agencies have been given the mandate to investigate and act accordingly upon identifying these crimes. In some instances, the available laws have been effective in controlling white color crimes while there are cases where the available laws have not been adequate enough to deal with crime perpetrators. This paper is aimed at looking at the effectiveness of legal guardianship provided on savings and loan violation, the effectiveness of laws in the case of the Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion as well as whether more criminal laws would have helped in preventing security violation and compliance.
For the government to identify and prosecute white color crimes conducted in savings and loans in the banking industry, it calls for the government to conduct a thorough investigation. In most cases, people who have committed the crime may not be identified. There are other cases where people may commit the crime unconsciously and end up suffering the consequences. In addressing these problems, the legal advice offered can prove to be adequate in ensuring that such crimes are never committed. Deciding to dispose of assets from those institutions identified to have embezzled money would not prove effective in eliminating these crimes. This is the reason why the act needs to be reconsidered and Berne’s actions are taken in the future. Disposing of these assets through the public market would give an opportunity for people who embezzled money to use their ill-gotten money to buy these assets (Schlegle & Weisburd, 1992, pp. 195-208). This would encourage more people to indulge in the act due to the benefits accrued by the culprits of the crime.
The law did not serve well in controlling and regulating behaviors and activities that were exhibited in the Space Shuttle Challenge Explosion. No rules were implemented to regulate tfor conduct of the people responsible of developing and launching the shuttle. Their main objective was to see that they have managed to fly the shuttle regardless of the effects it had. The team was well aware of the effects of using a faulty O-ring but did not take measures to ensure that they had repaired or replaced the ring. This can be attributed due to the lack of laws that governed their operations. They were not held liable to any problem that would arise as a result of their ignorance. This made level III officials make the decision of launching the shuttle despite them being aware that cold weather would be detrimental to the shuttle due to its faulty ring. The tendency of people in the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) staffs to hind all negative issues that occurred in their organization led to the officials not communicating the matter to higher-level officials (Schlegle & Weisburd, 1992, pp. 214-233). Holding these staff accountable for any tragic incident that would have occurred due to their negligence would have helped in evading the explosion of the shuttle.
To ensure that every employee has complied and ensured security, organizations come up with various civil laws. These are laws that are used within the organization to govern the conduct of all employees. Such civil laws include the establishment of protocol to be followed when disclosing organization information and assigning boundaries to the authority given to each employee. However, these laws have not effectively ensured that every person complies with the security measures. Introducing more formal criminal laws such as incarceration and fining of those who violate security rules would facilitate in reducing security violation and compliance as people would fear being jailed or facing charges (Schlegle & Weisburd, 1992, pp. 245-257).
References
Schlegle, K., & Weisburd, D. (1992). White-Collar Crime Reconsidered. London: Northeastern University Press.