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It was mentioned as the book where E.H. Sutherland coined the term 'white collar crime' in 1939. He argued that a bias existed in law enforcement against working class versus upper class crimes.
And he was the first dude to really bring this to light, wasn't he?
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Episode: SYSK Selects: How White-collar Crime Works
It was mentioned as the book where E.H. Sutherland coined the term 'white collar crime' in 1939. He argued that a bias existed in law enforcement against working class versus upper class crimes.
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. Sure.
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.