White Collar Crime and Offenders

About the Book

This book is a landmark in the study of white-collar crime and is the largest study of its kind ever conducted. This book will serve the needs of criminologists, policy-makers and the public as well. It will address the issue of what white-collar crime is, how social scientists have grappled with its definition, and report on the results of a 20-year longitudinal study of white-collar offenders. The frequency of their criminal conduct is analyzed and compared to other types of offenders.

The study involved retrospectively analyzing the data on the criminal careers on a very large cohort of more than 17,000 offenders.The purpose of the study was to:(1) test hypothese about white-collar and street crime offenders, (2) evaluate and critique theories of crime in relation to both types of offenders, (3) determine the extent of chronic offending among white-collar and street crime offenders within the career criminal paradigm, and (4) measure the degree of offense specialization found among all the offenders in the study.

About the Author

Roy V. Lewis, Ph.D. is a retired administrator and criminal justice researcher. During his 32-year career he co-authored a book on juvenile diversion, and published 54 research journal articles, government studies, and evaluations. Dr. Lewis lives in northern California with his wife Melissa, has two adult children Carrie and Casey, and a pet cat Tigger.