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This 3 page paper reviews the book The Criminal Elite: Understanding White Collar Crime by James William Coleman. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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To most people, the word "crime" conjures up horrible images of serial killers, rapists, gangbangers, thieves and muggers, all lurking in the shadows waiting to pounce. But the reality is
that white collar criminals do far more damage than their more notorious brethren. For instance, antitrust violations are a white collar crime, and the losses from this activity "are estimated
to be greater than all the losses from all the crimes reported to the police for more than a decade, and the toll of injuries and deaths from white-collar crime
is even higher" (Coleman, 2005, p. 1). The asbestos industry covered up the dangers associated with its product and as a result, "has probably cost almost as many lives as
all the murders in the United States for an entire decade" (Coleman, 2005, p. 1). Cigarettes, a perfectly legal product but one that kills its consumers, takes more lives in
a single year than asbestos does in a decade-and both, remember, are higher than the rate for a decade of murder (Coleman, 2005). Why are these criminals getting away with
this? First, the media has focused its attention on other types of crimes, as noted above. Serial killers and teenage gangsters are inherently more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media
is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that white-collar crime takes a backseat to the bloodier stuff; after all, in the journalistic saying,
"If it bleeds it leads." Second, police in general are ill-equipped to handle white-collar crime, which often results in criminal prosecution but without the trappings of a high-speed chase,
public arrest or spectacular crime scene (Coleman, 2005). How exciting is it to look at someones books? Third, the people who commit white-collar crimes are often very powerful and influential
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