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White, collar and street crime must first be defined if they are to be understood. Distinctions are important to the development of real solutions. Both a class and a race distinction must be made, since street crime tends to be the province of the poor, urban, largely black, and excluded underclass, while white collar crime felicitously conveys the notion of a white, educated, suburban, prosperous overclass. There are, as we’ve seen, important exceptions, but these mainly tend, by their comparative rarity, to prove the rule.
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Bouza, T. (1996). Organized Crime. In: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6034-4_6
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