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White collar vs. street crime

Title: White collar vs. street crime
Category: /Law & Government/Law Issues
Details: Words: 655 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
White collar vs. street crime
One problem that plagues our society is crime. Crime is all around us in our everyday lives. Daily we hear of murders, robberies, and rapes. These are categorized as 'street crimes.' For many people, such crimes are the only 'tragic' crimes, the ones that are senseless and preventable. In Finsterbusch's book, Taking Sides, another variety of crime is exposed. This other form of crime is 'white collar' crime. Both have victims, and the effects …showed first 75 words of 655 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 655 total…to want to address the problem. Many of the ones who commit white collar crimes are the same ones who have the power to decide where funding goes. The upper class has the money, and the voting and legislative power to decide whether law enforcement will even deal with white collar crime. When the corrupt have the power, 'justice' in America is a farce, and white collar crime will continue to decay our country's structure.

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