White-collar crimes have three distinctive characteristics - legitimate access, superficial appearance of legitimacy, and spatial separation. How do these characteristics make it more difficult to control white-collar crimes compared to ordinary street crimes?

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The Answer is These characteristics make it difficult to white-collar crime in a couple of ways. For one thing, the appearance of legitimacy makes the crimes hard to discover, and even if they are discovered the offender's ambiguous state of mind makes it difficult to prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt that the person intended to commit a crime. Surveillance is hard. The presence of legitimate access means that we can't use a lot of standard crime prevention strategies such as blocking access. Spatial separation between victims and offenders means that offenders can easily avoid feeling bad about the harm that they impose on others because they never see it directly.

White-Collar Crimes Have Three Distinctive Characteristics - Legitimate Access, Superficial