<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"Politicians strain to outdo each other with promises to 'get tough' on crime and to bring law and order back to the streets.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>"There is no question that common street crime is an important social concern. <br><br>"But its image has become so bloated in the mirror of public opinion that it blocks our view of the white collar crimes which are both more costly and more dangerous to society."<br><br>James Coleman. <i>The Criminal Elite.</i> 1985. St. Martin's Press<br><br>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br><br>"In a corrupt environment, resources will be directed toward \u2026 social control and repression as the elites move to protect themselves, their positions and their material wealth.\u201d<br><br>" \u2026 resources otherwise available for socio-economic development will be diverted into security expenditure."<br><br>John McFarlane. "Transnational Crime, Corruption and Crony Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century." <i>Transnational Organized Crime.</i> Vol. 4 No. 2, Summer 1998<br></div></div></body></html>