Chapter 42: Opportunity Structures for White-Collar Crime ; Oskar Engdahl

Three Structural Factors Enabling WCC

1. Financial Self-Interest

2. Low Priority of Control

3. Interpretative Primacy

 

Three Structural Opportunity Barriers Facilitating White Collar Crime

1. Committing and Hiding

2. Impeding Investigation and Detection

3. Preventing Action and Implementation

 

Chapter 43: Deciding to Commit a Burglary; Richard T. Wright and Scott H. Decker

Main reasons behind the burglary:

1. Money

2. Money to solve an immediate problem (no long-term goals)

3. Governed largely by the amount of money in their pocket at the time

4. Even if they had sufficient cash, unwilling to pass up opportunities

 

Spending Motivations:

1. Keeping the party going

2. Keeping up appearances

3. Keeping things together

 

Why Burglary?

1. Work not a viable solution

2. Lifestyle

3. Temporary 

4. Quick and Legal Unavailable

5. Main Line

 

The Seduction of Residential Burglary

 

Chapter 44: Gay Male Christian Couples and Sexual Exclusivity ; Andrew K. T. Yip

Typology of Gay Male Christian Couples

Category A: expectationally and behaviorally exclusive

Category B: expectationally exclusive but not behaviorally

Category C: expectationally and behaviorally non-exclusive

Category D: expectationally non-exclusive and behaviorally exclusive

Category A: expectationally and behaviorally exclusive

3 Reasons for Sexual Exclusivity

1. Total Commitment

2. Complete Mutual Satisfaction

3. Conventional Christian Ethics

 

Category C: expectationally and behaviorally non-exclusive

3 Reasons for Non-Exclusivity

1. Search for Variety and Excitement

2. Absence of Normative Guidelines

3. Egalitarianism

 

Category B: expectationally exclusive but not behaviorally

4 Regulatory Mechanisms

1. Ground Rules

2. Concealment

3. Disclosure

4. Preventing Sex from Developing into Affair