1. Favorable Laws: Laws are generally written in favor of the white-collar criminals. People who commit white-collar crimes are sometimes the same people position to see to it that their crimes are not defined too negatively
2. Little Police Effort: Virtually no police effort goes into fighting white-collar crime. Enforcement is many times put in the hands of government agencies. Often these agencies can act only as watchdogs and point the finger when an abuse is discovered.
3. Difficult to Assign Blame: Assigning blame in white-collar crime cases can be difficult. For example, pollution may be the result of corporate neglect, but corporation cannot be sent to jail. Corporations could be heavily fined, but the social impact of severely punishing an institution that may provide jobs to hundreds of people.