Chapter
42: Opportunity
Structures for White-Collar Crime
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:
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
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