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It was discussed that the book argued there was a bias towards working-class crimes and that upper-class crimes were often ignored, and that this was not okay.
And he wrote a book called white collar crime.
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Episode: SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works
It was discussed that the book argued there was a bias towards working-class crimes and that upper-class crimes were often ignored, and that this was not okay.
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.
And a guy steals $1,000 from an investor and he's rich.