Gilbert Geis
Biographic Data
| ID | 128117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert Geis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Geis |
| SIGNATURE | GEIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 99 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 98 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Sutherland, Edwin H. (1883–1950)
Edwin H. Sutherland is generally regarded as the father of the scientific study of criminology in the United States. In 1924 he published Criminology , the first systematic textbook study of crime. Sutherland advanced the principle of differential association, a social learning construct that sought to interpret criminal behavior in theoretical terms. He also coined the term “white collar crime” in his 1939 presidential address to the American So…
Organized Crime in Our Times
Organized Crime in Our Times provides readers with a clear understanding of organized crime, including its definition and causes, how it is categorized under the law, models to explain its persistence, and the criminal justice response to organized crime, including investigation, prosecution, defense, and sentencing. This book offers a comprehensive survey, including an extensive history of the Mafia in the United States; a legal analysis of the …
An Analysis and Recommendations Concerning an Incident in Which Muslim Students Interrupted an Israel Official Speaking on a College Campus
Eleven young men, eight of them members of the Muslim Student Association at the University of California, Irvine, and three from UC Riverside, as part of a planned stratagem, in turn stood up and heckled the Israeli Ambassador to the United States for about 5 min during his public presentation on the Irvine campus. They were ejected from the auditorium and punished by the University. Subsequently, the local district attorney filed misdemeanor ch…
White-Collar and Corporate Crime: A Documentary and Reference Guide
This reference guide documents white-collar crimes by individuals and businesses over the past 150 years, offering the most comprehensive array of documents and interpretations available. From Gilded Age railroad scandals to the muckraking period and from the Savings and Loan debacle to corporate fallout during the recent economic meltdown, some individuals and companies have chosen to take the low road to achieve “the American dream.” While thes…
How to effectively get crooks like Bernie Madoff in Dutch 1
Asset Forfeiture and Policing
The Michael-Adler report (1933): Criminology under the microscope
This paper details the responses made by social scientists as well as criminal justice practitioners during 1932 to a study focusing on the status of criminology by the Bureau of Social Hygiene. These responses ultimately led to the publication of the controversial Crime, Law and Social Science (1933), which gave much-needed direction to the development of criminology. Despite the importance of these responses to the creation of criminological th…
Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers: Up Close and Personal
New Times, New Crimes: “Blocking” Financial Identity Fraud
International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime
Product Review: The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts
Crime, Corporate
Corporate crime involves organizational wrongdoing, such as anti‐trust violations, false earnings statements, and misleading advertising. The doctrine of corporate crime permits the justice system to deal with an organization as if it were a real person, despite the fact that, unlike humanity itself, a corporation can have an indefinite life span and possesses no corporeal substance that can be hauled before a court. In the early 2000s, corporate…
Crime, White‐Collar
The term white‐collar crime is not found in any statute book. It was coined by Edwin H. Sutherland in his 1939 presidential address to the American Sociological Society. Sutherland stated that his focus was on crime in the upper or white‐collar class, composed of respectable or at least respected business and professional men. A decade later, in his book White Collar Crime , he declared that white‐collar crime may be defined approximately as a cr…
The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts
The Viability of Voluntary Visitability: A Case Study of Irvine's Approach
“Visitability,” or access for persons with disabilities, especially those using wheelchairs, to domestic buildings, such as houses and condominiums, is emerging as a matter requiring policy discussion, if not intervention and guidance. Few cities, counties, or states in the United States of America have policies in this area. Irvine, California, was an early jurisdiction to take up this concern and opted for a voluntary private initiative. This i…
Public Wealth, Public Health, and Private Stealth: Examining the Black Market in Cigarettes in Australia
Taxes on tobacco provide a significant income for the Australian government — $5.1 billion in 2001. At the same time, health officials are making strenuous efforts to reduce smoking, particularly among teenagers. Some economists suggest that raising taxes on tobacco will produce more revenue while at the same time lowering smoking rates, particularly among youths who have less discretionary spending power than adults. But a by‐product of excise t…
Insider trading
On the Absence of Self-Control as the Basis for a General Theory of Crime: A Critique
It is now approaching a decade since Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi promulgated what they called `a general theory' of crime. This article scrutinizes the claims made by the theory as measured against the standards of science and the results of empirical inquiries into elements of the proposed theoretical construct
Victimless Crime? Prostitution, Drugs, Homosexuality, Abortion
A Research Note: Women's Response to a Telemarketing Scam
This paper deals with a sparsely researched topic-the victimization of females by fraud. A nationwide survey of victims of a large-scale telemarketing scheme showed that onlya small percentage of the victims were females. Both financial and emotional consequencesgenerally were more severe for the older than for the younger women
Prostitution as a Reckless Enterprise
Walter C. Reckless's Vice in Chicago (1933) examined the consequences of the closing of Chicago brothels in 1913 and the transformation of prostitution from an encapsulated enterprise into a more laissez-faire pursuit. The contents of the monograph, one of the array of pathbreaking urban studies that marked Chicago School research under Robert E. Park, are reviewed both in terms of what they tell us about prostitution then and what significance t…
Prescription for Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Volume 525: White-Collar Crime
In What Ways Do Gender‐Related Attributes and Beliefs Affect Marriage
This article examines spouses' sex role ideology and personality dispositions in connection with marital behavior patterns. It shows that sex role ideology and sex typing in personality are distinct properties, that husbands and wives typically bring to marriage a mixture of gender‐related attributes and beliefs that, in turn, create marital behavior patterns that contain a variety of traditional and nontraditional elements. Spouses' sex role att…
On teaching a criminal justice seminar
The article describes the writer's experience with assigning undergraduate seminar students to follow the progress of an ongoing criminal trial. It sets out some of the methods by which the work was organized and carried out, and discusses the manner in which the students responded to the seminar requirements
On the Absence of Self-Control as the Basis for a General Theory of Crime: A Critique
It is now approaching a decade since Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi promulgated what they called `a general theory' of crime. This article scrutinizes the claims made by the theory as measured against the standards of science and the results of empirical inquiries into elements of the proposed theoretical construct
The Self-Image of the Prostitute
1963). The Self-Image of the Prostitute. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 150-161
Bystander Intervention Into Crime: A Study Based on Naturally-Occurring Episodes
Ted L. Huston, Mary Ruggiero, Ross Conner, Gilbert Geis, Bystander Intervention Into Crime: A Study Based on Naturally-Occurring Episodes, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Mar., 1981), pp. 14-23
Policing Physicians: Practitioner Fraud and Abuse in a Government Medical Program
Fraud and abuse by physicians participating in government medical programs incurs physical and fiscal costs to society. This paper focuses on the enforcement process by which such behavior is detected, defined, and sanctioned. Interviews with officials in California's Medi-Cal program reveal the special problems associated with the influence of physicians' professional power on the enforcement process. In addition, the occupational status of phys…
In What Ways Do Gender‐Related Attributes and Beliefs Affect Marriage
This article examines spouses' sex role ideology and personality dispositions in connection with marital behavior patterns. It shows that sex role ideology and sex typing in personality are distinct properties, that husbands and wives typically bring to marriage a mixture of gender‐related attributes and beliefs that, in turn, create marital behavior patterns that contain a variety of traditional and nontraditional elements. Spouses' sex role att…
Seriousness of crimes: A survey of the nation's chiefs of police
The Sociology of Punishment and Correction
The Longest Way Home: Chief Alfred C. Sam's Back-to-Africa Movement
Turning off: Cessation of Marijuana Use after College
Marijuana use among recent alumni reflects prior diffusion of a student subculture with a variety of correlated norms and values. Constraints of family and job, and change of associates after graduation, foster cessation of such drug use more often than complete change from the other values of this subculture. Diffusion of norms and values of the student subculture among educated young adults off campus is evident in many alumni not much involved…
Rape in Stockholm: Is Permissiveness Relevant
Sweden has a reputation for sexual liberality and sex‐role equality, two items which might be presumed to correlate with a low rate of forcible rape. In truth, however, the rate of rape known to the police in Stockholm is about equivalent to that for comparably sized American jurisdictions. Neither laws nor reporting rates are believed to vary meaningfully between the United States and Sweden. We suggest that the rape in Stockholm may well be a f…
Public Compensation to Victims of Crime
Practitioner Fraud and Abuse in Medical Benefit Programs: Government Regulation and Professional White‐Collar Crime
Physicians who defraud and abuse medical benefit programs provide a unique group of lawbreakers for scientific study. They could be considered to epitomize white collar criminals given their exceedingly high socioeconomic status and power as a professional group. Using official reports and documents, as well as interviews with enforcement and program personnel at both state and federal levels, this study examines the problem of physician fraud an…
Controlling "Dangerous" People
The label "dangerous" often has been applied in America to persons whose major threat lay in the fact that they offended the moral or esthetic sensibilities of those holding power. In the America of the Revolutionary period, there was comparatively little violent crime, but by today's standards, punishments tended to be harsh and/or humil iating. The mentally aberrant were seen as especially dangerous, since their condition was traced to a devili…
Toward a Delineation of White-Collar Offenses
Covert Facilitation and Crime: Restoring Balance to the Entrapment Debate
Covert facilitation of crime by or on behalf of government agents has always been viewed with suspicion, but the recent use of this technique of enforcement against power elites has resulted in a storm of protest from civil libertarians. The argument of this paper is that, although there is virtue in the standard libertarian objections, the use of covert facilitation is essential to ensure that the law is applied effectively against crime in high…
Bystander Intervention Into Crime: Public Policy Considerations
Reported Consequences of Decriminalization of Consentual Adult Homosexuality in Seven American States
This article reports results of a survey of police officials, prosecuting attorneys, and members of homosexual groups in the seven states that had decriminalized private homosexual behavior between consenting adults. Despite the dire predictions of many, the responses indicate that, among other things, decriminalization has had no effect on the involvement of homosexuals with minors, the use of force by homosexuals, or the amount of private homos…
Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Law
Journal Article Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Law Get access Gilbert Geis Gilbert Geis Los Angeles State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 7, Issue 1, Summer 1959, Pages 40–47, https://doi.org/10.2307/798759 Published: 09 August 2014
The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts
Culture Conflict Revisited: Fraud by Vietnamese Physicians in the United States
Power, Crime, and Mystification
Assaults in the air: Concerning attacks against flight attendants
Violence directed at airline personnel by passengers while an aircraft is in flight presents an interesting and uncommon form of deviant behavior that can inform the study of deviance in general. Such behavior has been identified by various observers as a growing social problem. This paper explores the phenomenon of assaults against flight attendants through analysis of official data including both case files and statistics, interviews with offic…
Looking Backward and Forward Criminologists on Criminology as a Career
White-Collar Criminal: The Offender in Business and the Professions
Violence and Organized Crime
Violence in the world of organized crime has been more common than in other segments of the social structure, mostly because of the absence of alternative control systems available to the highly competitive enterprises that make up organized crime. In the lower-class gang, the future organized criminal learns the utility of violence and is recruited into groups which train him in other social and personal at tributes of importance to a career in …
Problems of the Family
The Labor Court in Norway
A Cross-Cultural Study of University Students
Consumer Co-operation in Finland. The Development of the Joint Finnish Co-operative Movement to 1917 and a Survey of the Progressive Co-operative Movement After the Separation
Courtship Patterns of Norwegian and American University Students
In Scopolamine Veritas. The Early History of Drug-Induced Statements
Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Law
Journal Article Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Law Get access Gilbert Geis Gilbert Geis Los Angeles State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 7, Issue 1, Summer 1959, Pages 40–47, https://doi.org/10.2307/798759 Published: 09 August 2014
Toward a Delineation of White-Collar Offenses
Man, Crime, and Society
The Sociology of Punishment and Correction
Man, Crime, and Society: The Forms of Criminal Behavior
Man, Crime, and Society: The Forms of Criminal Behavior
The Self-Image of the Prostitute
1963). The Self-Image of the Prostitute. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 150-161
Probation and Parole. Barbara A. Kay , Clyde B. Vedder
Correctional Work: ‘Think Ye That Ye May Be Wrong’
Crime and Social Structure
The Addict and the Law
The Longest Way Home: Chief Alfred C. Sam's Back-to-Africa Movement
On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application in France
Violence and Organized Crime
Violence in the world of organized crime has been more common than in other segments of the social structure, mostly because of the absence of alternative control systems available to the highly competitive enterprises that make up organized crime. In the lower-class gang, the future organized criminal learns the utility of violence and is recruited into groups which train him in other social and personal at tributes of importance to a career in …
The Judicial Mind: Attitudes and Ideologies of Supreme Court Justices, 1946-1963
Violence in American Society
Essay| June 01 1967 Violence in American Society Gilbert Geis Gilbert Geis Professor of Sociology, California State College at Los Angeles Gilbert Geis joined the faculty of California State College at Los Angeles in 1957. During the 1965–1966 academic year, he was a fellow in law and sociology at Harvard Law School. More recently, he worked as a consultant for the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. Mr. Geis …
Ex‐Addicts As Streetworkers: The Boyle Heights Narcotics Prevention Project
Evaluating a training institute for juvenile court judges
White-Collar Criminal: The Offender in Business and the Professions
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