White Collar Crime: The Difference Between Wall Street And White Collar Crime

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There are many different types of crimes that can be committed, but they can al bel classified as either street or white collar. The difference is very clear when crimes are seen firsthand, and also depicted in film. In both movies “Robocop” and “Wall Street,” street and white collar crime can be understood very clearly. For the sake of this paper, “Robocop” is the main stage for the film depicting street crime. While “Wall Street” is the film that shows white collar crime, both movies show crime but the differences will be explained. The purpose of this essay will be to compare and contract street and white collar from “Robocop” and “Wall Street.”
Generally, when individuals think of street crime they become very fearful and imagine an incredibly violent situation. They think of things like murder, rape, robbery, etc., and there is fear because they don’t want that crime to happen to them. “Robocop” shows street crime when the criminal named Emil pulls a gun to the man working at the gas station to steal gas (Verhoeven, 1987). This scene fills the audience with fear because the man is unpredictable, and just like the lectures state, he is
It is much less violent to the public and there is generally less fear about it. When people think of white collar crime they think of things like embezzlement, trade monopolies, and insider trading. The whole bases of the movie “Wall Street” is the story of Bud Fox bringing Gekko’s illegal trading to light. These crimes are very rarely seen unless it is in the news or you are very rich. This is crime that is committed with pens and pencils instead of guns and knives. There are not many films showing white collar crime because as the lecture says “media may self-censor to avoid offending parent company” (Silvestri, 2015). Parent companies are the entities that give most of the funding for films. Also white collar crime is “not sensational enough – sex and violence

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