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White-collar crime has become a prominent social and political issue since the first global economic meltdown began in the last century. Today, this phenomena concerns practitioners and scholars from variety of disciplines. This paper is designed to present a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge research and micro-level theory and empirical research on white-collar crime. Having said that, it is worth noting that white-collar crime has been mostly neglected by majority academics in Bosnia and Herzegovina; hence this paper discusses the causes of white-collar crime through lenses of learning, neutralization, control and self-control theories and the empirical research thereof. Paper offers comprehensive and critical overview of the state of the art of criminology and criminal justice. To conclude there is no one major explanation of white-collar crime. This paper, rather, suggests an integrated approach in the search of an answer why good respectable or high ranked people commit (white-collar) crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]