Left-wing theorists point out that, while Indigenous people are imprisoned for relatively minor offences which often relate to public order rather than crimes of violence or property, wealthy criminals quite liter ally get away with murder as well as enormous illegal financial gain. This differential treatment partly occurs because business crimes tend not to be as crimes since they are the logical outcome of the pursuit of profit and are therefore implicitly sanctioned by our cultural norms and values. Their invisibility is therefore not just physical but psychological Although the situation is changing, partly due to the work of criminologists such as Braithwaite (1984), the lack of political will to deal effectively with the crimes of the powerful is likely to continue to be a serious problem.