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It was mentioned that E.H. Sutherland wrote a book on the topic, emphasizing the bias towards working-class crime over upper-class crime, and how this should be addressed.
And he was the first dude to really bring this to light, wasn't he?
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It was mentioned that E.H. Sutherland wrote a book on the topic, emphasizing the bias towards working-class crime over upper-class crime, and how this should be addressed.
And he was the first dude to really bring this to light, wasn't he?
And he wrote a book called white collar crime.
And his point was that there is a huge bias in the United States where law enforcement and the courts leaned heavily on the working class crimes.
And just basically ignored the crimes of the upper class.
Like if a guy's going to steal $1,000 from a cash register with no gun or anything like that. Right. Like there are other factors. But let's just say a guy steals $1,000 from a cash register and he's poor. And a guy steals $1,000 from an investor and he's rich.