Exam 8: Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts

In accounting for different levels of involvement of men and women in white collar crime, feminist criminology would be most likely to emphasize which of the following factors?

When attempting to explain white collar crime, only the explanation of criminalization is required.

The criminal law and criminal justice system have largely incorporated the premises of classical or rational choice theory.

The structural perspective in criminology focuses on which of the following?

In terms of character as well as personality, those who refrain from engaging in white collar crime are most likely to be which of the following?

Explanations for white collar crime which focus on the nature of the economic system, or societal values, can be said to emphasize which of the following factors?

Accounts play a significant role in white collar offenses in that they take place beforehand and allow offenders to rationalize their acts.

Studies on white collar crime and its association with mental illness, drug addiction, and intellectual aptitude have found evidence of which of the following?

When we are attempting to explain white collar crime, the following require explanation:

Which phrase best applies to general strain theory?

Studies have shown that many white collar criminals share certain personality traits.

In a Freudian approach, white collar crime would be linked with tensions and conflicts between different aspects of the self (ego, id, and superego).

William Black developed his control fraud theory specifically out of his engagement in the S & L debacle of the 1980s.

Various studies have uniformly found that white collar offenders suffer no significant consequences of stigma from convictions for white collar offenses.

According to the text, the pervasive existence of white collar crime seems to offer a powerful refutation to the proposition that criminality can be generally explained by biogenetic factors.

"Performance pressures" in socialistic countries can be regarded as the equivalent of the capitalist drive for profit, in explaining white collar crime.

Many students of white collar crime have insisted that the corporation can be regarded as directly responsible when it comes to crime.

Rationales for involvement in illegal activity cannot be generated on the corporate level, but only exist on the individual level.

Sutherland's differential association theory can be applied to both conventional and white collar crime.

Studies exploring the relevance of personality in white collar crime have for the most part not produced any clear evidence of psychological abnormality on the part of white collar offenders.