CRJ/512 CRJ512 CRJ 512 WEEK 6 - DISCUSSION White Collar Crime Defined

White Collar Crime Defined

In Chapter 12 of the primary text, Siegel (2015) defines white collar crime and describes the profile of the typical white collar offender. In your initial response to this week’s discussion, define white collar crime and economic crime in your own words, and describe the typical white collar crime offender. In addition, also define what is enterprise crime in your own words. Discuss the aforementioned using terms associated with the study of crime and criminology. In addition, also discuss the challenges addressing white collar crime.

Your initial post should be at least 300 words in length. Support your contentions with citations from the text and/or other scholarly sources. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.

Guided Response: Review your colleagues’ posts, and substantively respond in a meaningful way to at least two of your peers. Support your arguments with examples from the required material(s) and/or scholarly sources. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Day 7, and respond with robust dialogue to anyone who replies to your initial post.


Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.