WHITE COLLAR-CRIME

1 WHAT IS WHITE DEMOGRAPHIC

COLLAR-CRIME CHARACTERISTICS OF
It defined white collar-crime as “crimes WHITE COLLAR
committed by a person of respectability and high OFFENDERS
social status in the course of his corruption.

RACE
2 WHO ARE WHITE COLLAR
OFFENDERS
AGE
White collar offender tend to the
The majority of white-collar
The offenders are highly educated men who predominately white, especially in higher
offenders are arrested, prosecuted,
belong to the upper ranks of their organizations level corporate federal offences other
and convicted for their first offense
and who only commits offences involving their than that percentage of non white
anywhere between their late thirties
occupations within their respective businesses. physician were responsible for a
to their mid- to late forties.
considerable portion of medical.

PERSONALITY TRAITS OF
3 WHITE-COLLAR OFFENDERS
CLASS GENDER
That women tend to commit higher
The term “white-collar crime,” a
large percentage of these offenders percentages of lower-level white-collar
FIVE FACTOR TRAITS MODEL: crimes than men, especially such crimes
To identify the personality traits related to are gainfully employed and are
members of the middle class as embezzlement, asset
white-collar offending. misappropriation, and embezzlement.

TYPE A TRAITS
OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES
Type A individuals tend to be extremely
● Employed
competitive, to seek out financial gain, to exhibit
● Married
impatience with others, and to display a chronic
● In-laws in growing up PREPARED BY:
sense of urgency and an inability to relax, and
● Two parent household
often feel the need to challenge other type A PRAGASH
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