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This 12 page paper provides an overview of white-collar crime and its perceived seriousness in America. This paper relates the attitudes of the American public, law enforcement and the courts to white-collar crime and how its perceived seriousness has changed recently. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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goods than lower-class "blue-collar" perpetrators, while receiving much less, or no, punishment has always been a challenge in a society as dedicated to the ideals of democracy as America. However,
the definitions are so vague and subjective and the reach so broad and so prone to change that reaction from the public and professionals has ranged greatly. Proffered solutions differ,
from questioning whether white-collar crime is effectively a "crime" at all, to calls for abandoning the concept altogether and lumping these transgressions into the broader context of simply "crime," to
be dealt with as with any other crime perpetrated by any ordinary individual. "White-collar" crime is a term that has been in use since the 1940s, but the idea that
those with wealth and power, including wealthy businessmen and corporations, were able to bend, if not completely break, the law with impunity has been around in American society for far
longer; turn-of-the-century entrepreneurs were so intimately linked with crime, or at least underhanded tactics, that they were universally referred to in the media and by the public at large as
"robber barons." After all, Margaret Sanger, the birth-control and eugenics advocate of the early 20th century, famously told a fellow cellmate during one of her many incarcerations, who said he
had stolen a loaf of bread, "You should have stolen a railroad. They would have made you a senator" (Wardell, 1980). Ambiguity has plagued the concept of "white-collar" crime from
the beginning of its popularity. At first, the term was almost universally understood to refer almost exclusively to crimes committed by businessmen against other businessmen or against the public at
large (Sutherland, 1945). Authors of the time argued passionately against the perceived ineffectiveness of laws and against the disparate treatment given businessmen who were charged with even serious violations of
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