Social security fraud and white-collar offences represent serious forms of financial crime. We compare previous estimates of social security fraud in Norway made using a comparable methodology to that which we have applied to white-collar crime. Although the estimated 9.8 billion NOK for social security fraud is enormous in a nation like Norway, we suggest that the amount for white-collar crime is even bigger. We also apply social conflict theory to discuss the issue of priorities in law enforcement between social security fraud versus white-collar crime. According to social conflict theory, the justice system is biased and designed to protect the wealthy and powerful. They will never accept the view that minor fraud prosecution represents a kind of over-criminalization targeted at the losers in society. Keywords
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Gottschalk, P., & Gunnesdal, L. (2018). Social Security Fraud. In White-Collar Crime in the Shadow Economy (pp. 73–87). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75292-1_8
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