Exam 8: Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts

The rational choice perspective on criminal behavior stresses all but which of the following factors?

What process is characterized by the top managers in organizations attempting to protect the good reputation of the organization by providing statements on how decisions should be made while creating incentives for lower-level managers to take deviant or illegal actions on behalf of the organization?

The discovery that collective forms of white collar crime are carried out by individuals who also hold many attitudes favorable to obeying laws supports social learning theories of social behavior.

John Braithwaite's integrative theory suggests that nations with high levels of inequality of wealth and power will have high rates of both white collar and conventional crime.

The notion of America as a "criminogenic" society which promotes crime is not limited to the nature of its economic system.

Meso-level factors focus upon individual propensities and choices.

White collar crime has not been an important preoccupation of emerging new critical criminology perspectives such as left realism, peacemaking criminology, feminist criminology, or postmodernist criminology.

Contemporary forms of radical criminology, such as left realism, peacemaking criminology, feminist criminology, and postmodernist criminology, have been principally concerned with which of the following?

Corporations are less likely to engage in corporate crime when the political or economic climate promotes aggressive pursuit of profit.

Integrated theories of white collar crime are best described as those which:

The position taken by the text is that we should strive to produce a single theory or explanation which can comprehensively explain all forms of white collar crime.

Which of the following is the best definition of a theory?

Lemert's concept of secondary deviance suggests that those who have been labeled as white collar offenders may then become further involved in such activity.

Which of the following criticisms has not been directed at general theories of crime?

With regard to the relationship between white collar crime and personality:

In the text, the subprime mortgage loan crisis, which began in the United States in 2006, is analyzed in detail.Explain this crisis by using an integrated theoretical approach, paying particular attention to the elements at the structural (macro) level, the organizational (meso) level, the dramaturgic level, and the individual (micro) level.Be sure to include specific examples from the text and any general knowledge of the crisis.

Goffman's dramaturgic perspective offers one approach to the specific strategies which white collar offenders use to anticipate, deflect or manage stigma.

Organizations with specific goals have been characterized as:

Ronald Kramer and Raymond J.Michalowski's integrated theoretical model of state-corporate crime calls for attention to three basic levels of analysis: institutional environment, organizational, and individual.

Choose three of the following theoretical perspectives on crime: rational choice, social control, social learning, interactionism (labeling), neutralization, and structural strain.What are the principal underlying assumptions involved in each of these theories? Are these perspectives more useful in explaining white collar, conventional crime, or both about equally? Which theoretical perspective do you find most useful for understanding white collar crime, and why?