We talk about it all of the time: white collar crime. But what does the term mean? Essentially white collar crime is a crime that is committed by professionals- those who wear white business shirts with a collar. White collar crime usually involves bankers and those...
Month: July 2017
Have you committed forgery?
Imagine these three scenarios. Which one is forgery?Your spouse asks you to pick up some groceries and hands you her credit card. You use it and sign her name on the credit slip. Your mother is sleeping but a COD delivery comes. You write the check and sign her name....
How Many Of Us Commit Victimless Crimes?
Most of us like to separate ourselves from the word "crime." I'd never commit a crime, we say.Yet what we may not consider is that most of us at some time or another are the perpetrators of a victimless crime. Have you ever rolled through a stop sign, or lost...
How ten little words can protect your future
When our forefathers created the Constitution, they did so with a great eye toward freedom and unfair prosecution of crimes. As such, they laid out some very specific amendments that help you guarantee those rights. But it is up to you to protect them--not up to the...