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 contrast between different types of crime.
B
an argument in favor of reporting crime.
C
an argument against embezzlement.
D
a comparison between various criminals.
Explanation
The authors contrast white-collar crime with street crime by explaining how each is detected and recorded. White-collar crimes often go unnoticed because they have no obvious victim, while street crimes are typically reported by victims even when the criminal is not caught. So the excerpt presents a contrast between different types of crime.
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