Stripping away the glamour and mystique so commonly associated with white-collar crime in our media, I aimed to show it’s exploitive, detached and sometimes bizarre nature.
Watchmen is a Watchdog-esque 1990’s show, aiming to act as an ‘expose’ of white-collar crime. White-collar crimes are depicted in the form of puzzle boxes: the poker table for Market Abuse; the computer for Identity Fraud; and the suited torso for Bribery. Providing terrible advice, the sinister undertone comes to a head as the police raid the ‘studio’ and the show is itself revealed to be a fraudulent scam. With the act of committing a crime reduced to nothing more than a cerebral game to the white-collar criminal, and the crime now present among the modern day working-class as well as the rich, it is perhaps more prevalent than ever.
Who watches the Watchmen?
