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politicians who commit white collar crimes

Running Head : Is white collar crimes committed by politicians

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Introduction

The interest in white collar crime dates back to the 1920s , although the research resulting from White Collar Crime was started during the depression years of the 1930s . The initial public treatment of the subject matter occurred when Sutherland titled his presidential speech to the American Sociological Society in the year 1939 "The White Collar Criminal . Speech ' He was actually drawn to the subject in his search for a

broad theory of crime . The common explanations in those days (and also today ) stressed that poverty and other pathological social circumstances , are not generally caused by crime if crimes were also committed by people of high social status and respectability (Guy 2007 .According to the Justice Department in the US "White-collar crimes shall comprise those classes of non-violent unlawful activities that mainly involve traditional notions of deception , deceit , manipulation concealment , breach of trust , illegal circumvention or subterfuge " The Department of Justice has recently promoted the initiative that enforcement of federal crimes ought to be uniform . However , it is highly dubious that federal prosecutors will pass on millions (or any indictments of senior politicians for these crimes (Associated Press 2006

In spite of the rhetoric , the decision to prosecute is inevitably discretionary , how do prosecutors decide whom to prosecute ? Often , the choice reflects current politics--and today 's criminal du jour is the "white-collar " felon . However when most people talk about dynamically prosecuting white-collar crime...

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