Question

despite all the attention paid to rogue companies like enron, academics know very little about the prevalence of white - collar crime. the reason? there are no good data. 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, after which data are generated, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists, sociologists, and economists. but white - collar crime presents no obvious victim. from whom, exactly, did the swindlers at enron steal? and how can you measure something if you dont know to whom it happened, or with what frequency, or in what magnitude?
the excerpt helps the authors support their conclusion by

• evaluating a logical fallacy.
• providing statistical evidence.
• presenting logical statements.
• summarizing their claim.

Explanation:

The excerpt compares white - collar crime and street crime. For street crime, there are victims who report crimes, generating data and academic papers. For white - collar crime, there's a lack of obvious victims, making it hard to study. The authors use logical statements (comparing the two types of crime, explaining why white - collar crime is hard to study due to lack of victims and data, while street crime has data - generating victims) to support their conclusion. There's no evaluation of a logical fallacy (no fallacy is analyzed), no statistical evidence (no numbers or stats are given), and it's not summarizing the claim (it's providing reasoning to support it). So the correct option is presenting logical statements.

Answer:

C. presenting logical statements (assuming the options are labeled A, B, C, D with A. evaluating a logical fallacy, B. providing statistical evidence, C. presenting logical statements, D. summarizing their claim)