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Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
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White Collar Crime
Our criminal law trial
experience includes both state and federal charges of embezzlement
and fraud.
White collar crime has been defined by Edwin
Sutherland as a crime committed by a person of respectability and
high social status in the course of his occupation.
The term white collar crime only dates back to
1939. Professor Edwin Hardin Sutherland was the first to coin the
term. He hypothesized that white collar criminals attributed
different characteristics and motives than typical street criminals.
He originally presented his theory in an address to the American
Sociological Society in attempt to study two fields, crime and high
society, which had no previous correlation. He defined his idea as
crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status
in the course of his occupation. Many denote the invention of
Sutherland's idiom to the explosion of U.S business in the years
following the Great Depression. Sutherland noted that in his time,
less than two percent of the persons committed to prisons in a year
belong to the upper-class. His goal was to prove a relation between
money, social status, and likelihood of going to jail for a white
collar crime, compared to more visible, typical crimes. Although the
percentage is a bit higher today, numbers still show a large
majority of those in jail are poor, "blue-collar" criminals.
Much of Sutherland's work was to separate and
define the differences in blue collar street crimes which are often
blamed on psychological, associational, and structural factors.
Instead, white-collar criminals are opportunists, who over time
learn they can take advantage of their circumstances to accumulate
financial gain. They are often educated, intelligent, affluent,
confident individuals, who were qualified enough to get a job which
allows them the unmonitored access to often large sums of money.
Many also use their intelligence to con their victims into believing
and trusting in their credentials. Many do not start out as
criminals, and in many cases never see themselves as such.
At Hark & Hark we first address bail, get your first
hearing continued to provide time to pay for an attorney, and then
meet with you and your family to answer your questions. I am an
experienced New Jersey criminal lawyer providing aggressive, effective defense
for each case and every client.
Contact
experienced, aggressive
New Jersey criminal lawyer, Jeffrey Hark
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