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There are plenty of "blue collar" crimes that are non-violent. Some Americans have a problem mixing white collar and blue collar criminals because they are classist, like thier peers in India. This American thinks there should be one criminal justice system, not a seperate one for the rich (see e.g. affluenza).

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Ok, then replace "blue collar" with violent and "white collar" with non-violent in my comment. I don't care which term we use, I just started with "white collar crime" because that's the most common term for financial crime, and "blue collar crime" (though an uncommon phrase) is the antonym.

It does not work like that because there is plenty of crime which is non-violent as well as not financial.

such as?

Any person jailed just for selling drugs.

I don't have a horse in this race, but have you ever been around drug dealers?

Some of them are violent but some are not. It's not too hard to find people who would not use violence an sell wee for example.

Burglary, drug possession, prostitution, some kinds of vandalism, providing a false ID, underage alcohol, urinating in public, driving/hunting/whatever without a license, trespass, conspiracy to commit a crime... even taking a photo of a school in some places.

Yes, I know "white collar" was not the best term, it's just the most commonly used for the type of crime(s) like what she committed. Please, let us not get mired down in nitpicking over the precise term I used hours ago which I already freely admit was the wrong choice. I think it's clear now what I meant.

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