Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics. A key fact of white-collar crime is that we hear about only the very slim fraction of people who are caught
cheating. Most embezzlers lead quiet and theoretically happy lives, employees who steal company property
are rarely detected.
With street crime, meanwhile, that is not the case. A mugging or a burglary or a murder is usually tallied
whether or not the criminal is caught. A street crime has a victim, who typically reports the crime to the
police, who generate data, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists,
sociologists, and economists. But white collar crime presents no obvious victim.
In this excerpt, the authors present