Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food and drug laws, thefts and embezzlements by clerks and accountants, stock frauds, political chicanery of all sorts, fee-splitting by doctors. This top-drawer malfeasance does not reach the courts nearly so often...