leniently than street crime?...that is the question given to us for this paper I have to write...can anyone help me?
2006-10-24 15:58:58 · 10 answers · asked by strongchin1 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
White collar crimes are pretty much people with good jobs (aka business executives etc.) who do something illeagal related with their jobs. For instance inside stock trading. And I believe it is treated more leniently.
2006-10-24 16:02:20 · answer #1 · answered by Abtsolutely 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since we've defined "White Collar crime" I'll attack the second part of the question.
If someone is convicted illegal business practices, they will have any licence they had revoked and they will never be in a position to commit that type of crime again. If they do get a job, they won't have access to money and the will be closely supervised. Repeat offenders are basically unheard of, so there really isn't a huge point in sending these people to jail.
Fines and restitutions hit these people much harder than jail time. How exactly are you protecting society by having an accountant sit in government paid prison. If a kid is writing on the wall with crayons, throwing all the crayons aways is a much better punishment than sending the kid to time out. I hope that analogy makes sense.
2006-10-25 01:44:03 · answer #2 · answered by GreenManorite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White Collar Crime is like white collar work--- it is not physical. An example of white collar crime is when some accountant, (white collar job), decides he thinks he's smart enough to manage the book keeping of a company's finances, in a way so that he can sneak out money for himself.
Blue collar crime is like when a guy who works in a factory, ( blue collar job), and makes minimum wage decides he can't afford to buy his kid diapers and beats the heck out of a person walking down the street and takes his wallet.
Sometimes I believe White Collar crime is treated less severely because the people committing the crime are often,considered 'respectable citizens', or people like themselves, by judges and juries.
But in reality, the real reason is because white collar crime is not violent and blue collar crime more often is.
2006-10-24 23:09:29 · answer #3 · answered by motohype 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white collar crimes usually involve tax crimes and stealing money from the masses where a street crime means usually one on one crime...since more people are victims in a whit collar crime te punishments tend to differ from those of a street crime depending on the various circumstances.
2006-10-24 23:03:09 · answer #4 · answered by twysty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white collar crime are crimes committed in the "professional/busines world". A few examples are the Enron scandal and the Martha Stewart case. Those types of crimes are usually committed by respectable, wealthy indivuduals who have alot to lose by being exposed.
2006-10-24 23:03:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"White collars" refer to respected jobs, where your position resurrects as much trust as you yourself . So any crime at that position results into lots of psychological, social and economical impact on many, directly or indirectly. One of the examples is of 'ethical decisions by CEO's, Corporate Social responsibility incurred by Higher authorities, or Inclusion of top notch men, in scams of millions...
2006-10-25 10:20:08 · answer #6 · answered by Psychologist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No propensity for violence is the largest factor. Usually it is also a victimless crime where the victim has no face but that of an insured corporation.
2006-10-25 02:36:54 · answer #7 · answered by oojzmoo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white collar crime is bussness embezzelment theft of technoligy etc. street crime usually deals with violent offenders so violence is dealt with more severely by the courts than non violent offenders
2006-10-24 23:09:17 · answer #8 · answered by kay r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
white collar involves oranised corruption on many levels in business politics ect so is wide rangeing
blue collar crime is usually person on person.
so in the end white collar(bussiness man) money is worth more than blue collar(working man) money
2006-10-24 23:04:10 · answer #9 · answered by BoChOi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHITE COLLAR CRIME IS LIKE WHAT TOOK PLACE AT ENRON. IE WHITE SHIRTS AND TIES. JEFFREY SKILLINGS JUST GOT 24 YEARS. HALF WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE GOT, SORRY IM APREACHER BUT THEY WIPED OUT, TOTALLY WIPED OUT MANY PEOPLES RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS. THOSE IN THE TRENCHES WORKED THEIR AQDULT LIVES FOR MEAGER SAVINGS IN COMPARISON TO THE "WHITE COLLARS" AND HAVE NOTHING LEFT. THOSE WHITE COLLARS HAD 6 FIGURE PLUS INCOMES. HELP?
GOD BLESS
2006-10-24 23:05:04 · answer #10 · answered by thewindowman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋