Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Lemert’s concept of secondary deviance suggests that those who have been labeled as white collar offenders may then become further involved in such activity.
2. Various studies have uniformly found that white collar offenders suffer no significant consequences of stigma from convictions for white collar offenses.
3. Goffman’s dramaturgic perspective offers one approach to the specific strategies which white collar offenders use to anticipate, deflect or manage stigma.
4. Accounts play a significant role in white collar offenses in that they take place beforehand and allow offenders to rationalize their acts.
5. According to the text, Merton’s theory of anomie is only applicable to lower class, or unsuccessful, people.


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE

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