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It was written by a criminologist and sociologist in 1939, highlighting a bias in the U.S. where law enforcement focused on the working class rather than the upper class when it came to crime.
And he wrote a book called 'White Collar Crime'.
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Episode: SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works
It was written by a criminologist and sociologist in 1939, highlighting a bias in the U.S. where law enforcement focused on the working class rather than the upper class when it came to crime.
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.
They should be treated equally and they're not. And that's what Sutherland's point was.