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White Collar Crime Vs Common Crime

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First examining Reiman and Leighton we can see the problems facing white-collar crime compared to common crime. Common crime is seen as more harmful than WCC. Crime is seen to be most commonly committed by young, poor, minority, males. They are counteracted by a maybe not perfect justice system. The police arrest them, the courts convict them, and the prison corrects them. The criminal justice system is supposed to target and profile the typical criminal. The definition of typical criminal is decided by the statistics in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system determines that common criminals are the most dangerous. The crimes they commit to each other one on one are the most harmful crime there is. The common criminal is normally …show more content…

WCC is almost always commited on an individual level by corporate executives, but it can be committed by governments and other entities as well. The criminal justice system almost has no hand in the WCC realm of investigative enforcement. The SEC and other regulatory agencies have to ensure that they find the crime. In a common crime, we know what the crime is we have to find the perpetrator. The sentencing of WCC criminals is completely different as well. The police normally do nor arrest them, if the court convict them it normally will be on a plea bargain on behalf of the defendant’s attorney to ensure the clients gets a fine and avoids jail time. The corporations that commit WCC will normally only receive a fine and be told not to do that certain crime again under threat of harsher punishment. There is no target criminal for WCC. It is up to the SEC and regulatory agencies to find these crimes and hidden corporate agendas to ensure WCC cannot be perpetrated. It would be hard to discern who a typical criminal would be anyway. The concrete data of studying White-collar crime only began in the early 1960’s. The assumption that one on one crime is more harmful is astronomical. WCC is more harmful both physically and financially than common crime anyway you examine it. We can take a case study to show the demographic and socioeconomic differences between a WCC criminal and a common criminal. The heavy electrical equipment scandal is a prime example. The defendants are described as the men in ivy league suits that were all well respected members of the community. They all sat on church, hospital, bank and other community oriented types of executive boards. The defense attorney condemned the jail time. He called it cold blooded to send “this fine man” to be behind bars with common criminals who have been convicted of embezzlement and other serious crimes. The struggle of WCC is

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