Ordering the Chaos of the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Freakonomics
Question 3 • *CR English 3 S2 [E3060OX]
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
Answer
A
a comparison between various criminals.
B
an argument in favor of reporting crime.
C
a contrast between different types of crime.
D
an argument against embezzlement.
Explanation
The excerpt contrasts white-collar crime with street crime. It explains that embezzlement and other workplace thefts often go undetected because they have no obvious victim, while street crimes are usually reported and counted even when the criminal is not caught. This makes “a contrast between different types of crime” the best answer.
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