Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? By general definition, a crime is a wronging, proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings that gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a culture, our concept of crime is usually that of a physical one. We as a society, generally conjure images of a personal assault on oneself when defining the concept of a crime. Very rarely would ones first connotation of crime be of an executive of a large firm stealing money from the business. We as a society, generally define our concepts by our surroundings. Society is more frequently exposed to street crimes. It is very rare that a day goes by that we do not learn a murder, physical attack or robbery through the media. Those so-called street crimes affect our neighborhoods !.
and society everyday. Those crimes are contributing to the destruction of society, our cities, and our streets. The street crime is the most harmful of crimes; it is responsible for the disintegration of society, as we know it. To demonstrate the harm caused by society by street crime, one has to look no further than to inner city neighborhoods. Street crimes are responsible for injuries, death, sexual assaults and the loss of personal property through force. They can also be attributed to the decline of local business and the drop in education and pride in ones communities as well. In the lower economic neighborhoods, many resort to crime for financial reasons. Members of the community sell drugs or rob as means of support. These deviants do not inflict these crimes on neighborhoods other than their own. This is the major reason why street crime is so harmful. The members of society through their illegal actions are destroying society.
Is street crime more harmful than white collar crime? ... Street crime is far more dangerous than white collar crime. ... Society lives in fear of violent street crime. ... We don't discredit the fact that white collar crime isn't dangerous. ... Therefore there's a good chance that some of the people are criminals, white collar criminals. ...
In this paper the exciting criminal phenomenon known as white-collar crime will be discussed. ... White Collar Crime The late Professor Edwin Sutherland coined the term white-collar crime about 1941. ... White-collar crimes are punished far less harshly than blue-collar crimes, which shows societies attitudes towards the two sections of society. ... Yet white-collar crime can create the greater havoc. ... Studies have indicated that the public now judges white-collar criminality to be more serious than it had been in the past, people now have lost confidence in the people running major compani...
White-collar crime is a term that has been applied to a wide variety of non-violent crimes that are often committed in offices and boardrooms rather than on the street. ... White-collar crime; however, can have more of an impact than violent crimes. ... The real problem behind white-collar crime is not defining white-collar crime, but developing the appropriate means to correct this type of crime. One of the most popular white-collar crimes is embezzlement. Since I feel that this is the most harmful, and most recently exposed type of White Collar crime (Enron), I will focus mainly on this....
