Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Sex, race, age, and religion and white collar crime

I would like to provide a link to the book on the white-collar crime in America that was published by Yale University Press in 1991. It merits a look, indeed.

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As you can see about 83% of white collar criminals in the sample (1094 criminals studied) are males and 77.9% are white. An average age of a white collar criminal was 40 (middle aged). Catholics and Protestants accounted for about 75% of all white collar criminals and comprised about 95% of the 7-district population. Jews accounted for 13% and comprised about 2% - 8% of the 7-district population (The numbers that are presented in the book/table are based on the 1980 population of the seven districts in the sample and are weighted to reflect the makeup of the white collar crime sample). The book goes on saying that "the percentage of Jews rises from 9% in the lowest category (including bank embezzlement, tax fraud, and credit fraud) to 15% in the moderate category (mail fraud, false claims, and bribery) to 33% in the high category (antitrust and securities fraud)". Jews are of course more likely to be found in the financial/securities industry than any other religious or ethnic group in America. Additionally, Jews comprised 21.8% of the white-collar sample in the major cities like New York City, Los Angles, and Chicago , and only 5.1% in the other four.

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