White Collar Crime & Profiling

Question 1

types of white collar crimes (2)

Answer 1

occupational crimes
individual against business, victims typically upper class

corporate crimes
committed within companies that have high level of bureaucracy, victims are ppl who purchase products from company

Question 2

typical white collar criminal

Answer 2

while, male, highly educated, upper management positions

narcissistic, hedonistic, low self control

low intergrity, irresponsible, not dependable

Question 3

organized crime

Answer 3

3+ people

associate with each other for the purpose of committing serious offences

definition is too broad, should it include money laundering?

Question 4

Conrad Black

Answer 4

fraud and obstruction

company misconduct, 80 million improperly taken and spent by Black

Question 5

Bernie Madoff

Answer 5

65 billion fraud

pyramid scheme, paid old clients with investments of new clients

Question 6

two types of profiling

Answer 6

crime scene profiling
crime scene indicators to infer personal qualities about offender

geographic profiling
trying to identify the area where the offender lives

Question 7

crime scene data to collect

Answer 7

photographs

autopsy

behaviour and lifestyle of victim

forensic evidence

Question 8

types of crime scene profiles

Answer 8

organized offender
intelligent, socially competent, responding to stress, shows forethought

disorganized offender
the opposite, thought to be easier to apprehend

Question 9

crime scene distrinctions

Answer 9

modus operandi
method used
changes within an offender over time

signature
behaviours related to offender’s personality
tends to be p stable

staging
efforts to alter the crime scene to midlead investigators

Question 10

assumptions of profilers

Answer 10

consistency assumption
offender will act the same over time

homology assumption
relationships between behaviours at crime scene and offender

Question 11

principle of both

Answer 11

personality is stable over time and situation

should have better understanding of different personalities in different environments

Question 12

Pinizzotto and Finkel

Answer 12

profilers, police, uni students

given same info as police and students

profilers identified 35% of characteristics, same as the officers and students

Question 13

meta analysis

Answer 13

no evidence that profilers are better at predicting

just more used to being on the crime scene