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HARK & HARK
White Collar Crime Lawyer in NJ
1101 Marlton Pike West
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
1.866.427.5529

Practicing in all NJ Counties

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Criminal matters are serious and white collar crime may come with a severe stigma attached to it which can have a profound impact on your life. When faced with these types of criminal charges, you are worried about your future, your job, your kids, and when you or your family member will get out of jail. You can be assured that  as an experienced white collar crime  lawyer, I will answer your questions, provide you comfort and confidence in your defense and address your court needs immediately.

When facing any kind of white collar crime charges we believe that time is of the essence. We don't 'wait and see' what the Prosecutor or the Judge has to say. Upon being charged, there is no time to waste in a white collar crime charge.  Chances are the matter you are charged with is serious. When faced with any white collar crime charges, you are worried about your future, your job, your kids, and when you or your family member will get out of jail. You can be assured that New Jersey white collar crime lawyer, Jeffrey Hark will answer your questions, provide you comfort and confidence in your defense and address your court needs immediately.

What is white collar crime?

White collar crime has been defined by Edwin Sutherland as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.

The term white collar crime only dates back to 1939. Professor Edwin Hardin Sutherland was the first to coin the term, and hypothesize that white collar criminals attributed different characteristics and motives than typical street criminals. He originally presented his theory in an address to the American Sociological Society in attempt to study two fields, crime and high society, which had no previous correlation. He defined his idea as crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in course of his occupation. Many denote the invention of Sutherland's idiom to the explosion of U.S business in the years following the Great Depression. Sutherland noted that in his time, less than two percent of the persons committed to prisons in a year belong to the upper-class. His goal was to prove a relation between money, social status, and likelihood of going to jail for a white collar crime, compared to more visible, typical crimes. Although the percentage is a bit higher today, numbers still show a large majority of those in jail are poor, "blue-collar" criminals.

Much of Sutherland's work was to separate and define the differences in blue collar street crimes which are often blamed on psychological, associational, and structural factors. Instead, white-collar criminals are opportunists, who over time learn they can take advantage of their circumstances to accumulate financial gain. They are educated, intelligent, affluent, confident individuals, who were qualified enough to get a job which allows them the unmonitored access to often large sums of money. Many also use their intelligence to con their victims into believing and trusting in their credentials. Many do not start out as criminals, and in many cases never see themselves as such.

We first address bail, get your first hearing continued to provide time to pay for an attorney, and then meet with you and your family to answer your questions. I am an experienced white collar crime lawyer providing aggressive, effective defense for each case and every client.

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