Does the professional thief and organised criminal have a safe haven in committing economic crimes?

There is increasing evidence that economic criminals operate under the radar of crime prevention measures and outside of the mainstay of law enforcement activity. In some countries at least (and the UK is an example) the majority of crime is fraud (and related offences). Offenders say different types of economic crime are easy to commit, unlikely to pursued by authorities, and so the chances of avoiding capture are high, and moreover this is lucrative. Is this situation true? How can we begin...