What is the difference between white-collar crime and street crime? Why is white-collar crime perceived by many as less threatening to society?

What will be an ideal response?


Street crime is often more visible to the public than white collar crime. Additionally, often times there is not a individual “victim” associated with white-collar crime. Due to these reasons, white-collar crime is perceived by many as less threatening to society.

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What will be an ideal response?

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a. 3 to 7 b. 10 to 12 c. 20 to 25 d. 44 to 49

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A. sexual slavery. B. a rape script. C. intimate partner violence. D. gender intimidation. E. gendered violence.

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A. manifest function of education. B. latent function of education. C. dysfunction of education. D. goal of the interactionist approach to education.

Sociology