Male White Collar Offenders Summary

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Criminal Thinking and Identity in Male White-Collar Offenders by Glenn D. Walters and Matthew D. Geyer was published in 2004 in the Criminal Justice and Behavior journal. The purpose of the Criminal Justice and Behavior journal is to publish high-quality research for the purpose and intention of disseminating the scholarly evaluations of assessments, classification and programs of intervention, prevention and treatment which may then assist correctional professionals in developing efficacious programs which are fundamentally based on informative and comprehensive theoretic and scientific research (International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology, 2012). Walkers and Geyer’s work in this journal centers and focuses exclusively …show more content…

The deviations were measured in terms of the inmate’s criminal lifestyle involvement, criminal thinking and criminal identity. Walters and Geyer’s research and work in the journal of Criminal Justice and Behavior is conducted on their comprehensive understanding of Sutherland’s work on white collar crime and their research can be extended to help further the understanding of how white collar offenders differ from other non-white collar offenders, however their research is lacking in argumentation of their …show more content…

Sutherland, president of the sociological society at the time, addressed a topic which altered the study of crime. Prior to his address the focus of most who studied crime had always been centered on low income class individuals who came from broken homes and who were believed to have fixations and addictions for illegal behavior (Sutherland, 1983). In his speech for the American Sociological Society, Sutherland, discussed white collar crime which was a relatively new concept and noted that a significantly large amount of criminal behavior was conducted by individuals who were brought up in healthy homes with intact psyches and were in positions of power. These individuals were what he considered white collar criminals.
According to Sutherland, detailed documentation proved that white collar criminals have “rap sheets” which resemble in terms of length and frequency to those of professional but conventional offenders. In other words, white collar criminals committed just as many criminal acts and just as often as those who committed conventional crimes such as bank robberies or con men. This concept is what Walters and Geyer’s research was founded and focused

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