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“This sub-group is referred to as red-collar criminals because they straddle both the white-collar crime arena and, eventually, the violent crime arena. In circumstances where there is the threat of detection, red-collar criminals commit brutal acts of violence to silence the people who have detected their fraud and to prevent further ...
Obstruction has been categorized by various sources as a process crime, [3] a public-order crime, [4] [5] or a white-collar crime. [6] Obstruction can include crimes committed by judges, prosecutors, attorneys general, and elected officials in general.
During one manic episode, I partied hard, bought a nightclub, and committed a white-collar crime. The charges for my crimes hung over my head for years and still affect my life.
His sentence was believed to be the longest prison term ever imposed in a U.S. federal court and the longest ever for white-collar crime. [5] [4] [6] Weiss fled the country during jury deliberations in October 1999, and was extradited from Austria in 2002. His sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump on January 19, 2021. Weiss was ...
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In the interest of greater conceptual clarity within the field of white collar crime the argument is made here for restricting the term 'occupational crime' to illegal and unethical activities committed for individual financial gain - or to avoid financial loss - in the context of a legitimate occupation.
The 2013 action-drama film Gangster Squad is based on the LAPD's Gangster Squad (although with considerable departures from real-life people and events). Jack Webb's 1954 film Dragnet is based on the Intelligence Division. Author James Ellroy used a different, fictionalized version of the Gangster Squad, the "Mobster Squad", in his L.A. Quartet ...
Edwin Hardin Sutherland (August 13, 1883 – October 11, 1950) was an American sociologist.He is considered one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century. He was a sociologist of the symbolic interactionist school of thought and is best known for defining white-collar crime and differential association, a general theory of crime and delinquency.