Jada Foucha Street Crime and White collar crime: which is more serious?

Street crime is any criminal offense in a public place. White collar crimes are financially motivated nonviolent crimes committed by business and government professionals. Both are very serious but I feel that Street crime is more serious. White collar crime is important but its not as violent as street crime. Being that street crime may end with someone dead, makes it more serious than white collar crime.

Robbery, often called mugging and thefts from victims in the street where their property is snatched and the victim is not assaulted is also considered street crime. Other examples of street crime include pick pocketing, the open illegal drugs trades, prostitution in the form of soliciting outside the law, the creation of graffiti and vandalism of public property, and assaults.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbery )

Pick pocketing is when someone takes something from you without you noticing. An example of pick pocketing would be going to a party and someones dances closely next to you and suddenly walks away. If something is missing out of your pocket, nine times out of ten you have been pick pocketed. This crime is hardly ever solved but its dangerous. Say someone feels someone going into their pocket, it could cause a fight. That one on one fight could turn into a gang fight and gang fights never end well.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickpocketing )

Illegal drug trade is another street crime. Any illegal drug is not to be sold. Such as Marijuana, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Ephedra. Selling drugs can result in the death of many people if any money comes up short. Most of the time there is a main man that the police are looking for but he is usually found after they take down all of that mans workers. If there is a drug bust guns are usually fired. Illegal drug trade is a very dangerous crime. Its just as dangerous for the person that buys the drug as it is for the seller. The person that buys the drug doesnt really know what they are buying and sometimes the drug they buy could really mess them up. On top of that they could go to jail for illegal drug use. Illegal drugs are illegal for a reason.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade )

Assault is a more violent street crime. Assault is harmful or offensive contact with a person. Putting your hands on someone violently is an example of an assault and you could do a whole lot of time if someone presses charges on you. As you can see all street crime is violent.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault )

White collar crime is a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. Typical white-collar crimes include fraud, bribery, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, cybercrime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery.

(http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/whitecollarcrime )

Fraud is when you are faking, when you are basically lying to try and get something. Fraud is a deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain. An

example would be going to a school in Orleans parish and you live in Jefferson parish. You are saying you live somewhere and you dont you could get into serious trouble. That is a crime.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud ) A Ponzi scheme is a sort of investment. Its a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme)

Identity theft is a really serious white collar crime. Identity theft is the fraudulent acquisition and use of a person's private identifying information, usually for financial gain. Greedy people steal other people identity, usually to get money or do things they cant do with their own identity. People with bad credit are more likely to steal some ones identity.

( https://www.google.com/#q=what+is+identity+theft )

Money laundering is the process whereby the proceeds of crime are transformed into ostensibly legitimate money or other assets. If you deposit more than 10,000 dollars randomly into your bank account it raises flags and youll be questioned by the government. People have fake business when their making a lot of money illegally so that the government wont have suspicion. You could get about 10 to 20 years when laundering money.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering )

Notice in every street crime there is some sort of death involved. White collar crime is mostly dealing with stealing money. This is why I feel that street crime is more serious than white collar crime. Criminals that commit white collar crimes usually get more time than criminals that commit street crimes. Money can always be made again but you cant give some their life back.

Street crime should be handled more seriously than it is. White collar crime is usually taken care of right away, justice is served more quickly in white collar crime than in street crime.

I chose this topic because it would be interesting writing about how the government handles certain crimes. I could easily write seven pages on why street crime is more serious than white collar crime. Its weird that I dont want to be a police officer or a lawyer or anything that has to deal with this topic yet Im still very interested in writing about it.

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