“Food and drug violations, lavish use of pesticides, defective automobiles, professional malpractise, building code violations, to name a few situations, are a much larger hazard to life and limb than crimes of violence on our streets. Other assaults on the human body, such as air and water polution, are only now being brought under the rule of law.

What, then, is the explanation of the difference between our society's vastly greater preoccupation with street crime than with business crime? Why are there fantastic disarities in the penalties imposed on a car thief as contrasted with a corporate official who knowingly refused to report severe adverse drug effects to the FDA and to physicians, or on an unemployed $50 check-forger compared with company executives convicted of conscious and systematic price-fixing on a massive scale in violation of the antitrust laws? Law schools simply avoid teaching students about the privileges and immunities granted business crime.”