It is a crime committed by people from a lower social class, often just for personal gain, like a mugging or armed robbery. This differs from more sophisticated crimes such as embezzlement, which would be committed by people of a higher class on a larger scale and are referred to as white collar crime. Blue collar crime could be by an individual or a gang.
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Yes I think you could look at it that way, a robbery-holdup is seen as a blue collar crime, whereas embezzlement, or insider trading of stock account funds is seen as a white collar crime.
Professor Edwin Hardin Sutherland
Common crimes like theft, burglary, and assault.
White Collar crimes can have a far worse impact than blue collar crimes, look up 'Madoff'. Also they usually do not receive equal punishments. Blue collar punishments tend to be worse.
Blue collar
The FBI can investigate any federal crime, whether it is considered to be "white" or "blue" collar. If someone bashes the head of a federal officer with a lead pipe, the FBI has the authority to investigate that federal crime.
a supervisor that wears a blue collar
white collar-----> blue collar is labor work
White collar.
No employer is blue collar or any other collar. OCCUPATIONS are informally called that.
Yes, credit card fraud is often considered a white collar crime. White collar crimes typically involve deceit, manipulation, or breach of trust, which aligns with the actions of someone committing credit card fraud for financial gain.
The Blue Collar Sessions was created in 2002.