What's worse, stealing a lady's purse or bankrupting thousands of people? Why is stealing the purse punished so much more harshly?
2006-10-06 07:33:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Dave Chapelle's skit of a corporate exec being beat up by police and then appearing in court in an orange jumpsuit was so funny. Especially when the judge tells him he has been found guilty by a jury of his peers. The jury was full of gang bangers.
I think when you do a crime like Enron where it influences numerous people, it should be punished extremely severe.
2006-10-06 10:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
High profile cases are now being adjudicated more harshly. The founder of World Com essentially got a life sentence for his part in the failure of World Com. There are a number of factors in the past that resulted in the desperate results of like crimes for white collar criminals as compared to street criminals:
1. Street crime usually involves violence unlike white collar crime
2. White collar criminals usually have the resources to defend themselves
3. White collar victims many times were thought to have brought on themselves the crime (falling for pyramid scheme because of greed or example)
The pendulum is beginning to swing the other way.
2006-10-06 13:55:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The man committing the "white collar" crime is more than likely white, affluent and connected.
The man committing the "blue collar crime" is more than likely none of the above.
This is not a racist indictment. Money will get you out of any crime, including murder. The OJ Simpson trial settled that once and for all.
2006-10-06 08:18:40 · answer #3 · answered by Rev Phred 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tell that to the Enron, Tyco, and other executives who have been caught with their hand in the till. Years of imprisonment and forfeiture of their ill-gotten gains. Some have been totally bankrupted, which I think is entirely just. Isn't this as bad as sentencing murderers and rapists to long sentences and then letting them out in a few years for lack of prison space?
2006-10-06 07:41:41 · answer #4 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the people who commit "white collar" crimes play golf with the people who make the laws.
2006-10-06 08:44:06 · answer #5 · answered by Who_Dey_Baby? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's because they usually cut or kill the lady to get her purse.
2006-10-06 07:43:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋