Study Guide for Examination #5
CRJS 355- Barnes
Spring 2011
Prostitution
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Guest Lecturer
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Text (pp. 260-261)
History of White-Collar Crime
Founder?
-Edwin Southerland 1939. Raised concern over the criminological community’s
preoccupation with the law statute, offender and street crimes with relative
inattention given to people in “higher status” occupants.
Types/examples of white-collar crime: SEE BLACKBOARD.
Measurement: FBI calculates by type of offense, “those illegal acts which are characterized by
deceit, concealment, or violation of trust, and which are not dependent upon the application or threat
of physical acts or violence. Individuals or organizations commit these acts to obtain money, property
or services; to avoid payment or loss of $ or services, or to secure personal or business advantage
(USDOJ, 1989).
3 major orientations
Type of offender: high SES or occupation of trust.
Type of offense: economic crimes.
Terms of organizational culture: rather than offender and offense.
Definitions and examples/scenarios:
Bribery: offering, giving, receiving or soliciting of anything of value to sway
Judgment or action.
Counterfeit/Forgery: The altering, copying, or imitation of something, without authority or
right, with the intent to deceive or defraud by passing the copy of
thing altered or imitated as that which is original or genuine; or the
selling, buying, or possession of an altered, copied, or imitated thing
with the intent to deceive or defraud.
Embezzlement: The unlawful misappropriation by an offender to his/her own use or
Purpose of money, property, or some other thing of value entrusted to
his/her care, custody, or control.
Fraud Offenses: The intentional perversion of the truth for the purpose of inducing another
Person or other entity in reliance upon it to part with something of value or
to surrender a legal right. False Pretenses/Swindle/Confidence Game, Credit
Card/ATM Fraud, Impersonation, Welfare Fraud, Wire Fraud
Corporate crime
Environmental crime
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