Annotated Bibliography:
Blue Collar Crime
Maressa Hawkins
South Carolina State University
Annotated Bibliography
Blue Collar Crime
Brooks, G., Button, M., & Gee, J. (2012). The scale of health-care fraud: A global evaluation. Security Journal, 25(1), 76-87. This article points out the seriousness of health care fraud by providing the findings from a survey of fraud and error loss measurement in the health care areas of six different countries. Health care fraud is a blue collar crime that has seen a rise in recent times. This article points out that the legal definition of fraud; is defined as false representation abuse of position or failing to disclose information. Common types of fraud that occur within the health care …show more content…
As stated in this article, many companies set aside thousands of dollars in expected benefits for employees. These thousands of dollars can be exploited by employees claiming a niece or a nephew wo they are not taking care of. Oftentimes employees take these risk, because there is essentially no cost to employees other than having a family member removed from the program. Unfortunately, the people who do commit fraud and cause the dependent verification programs to exist may discourage people who actually have eligible dependents from applying. This article is written to explain the costs as well as the benefits of dependent verification programs that arise in an attempt to cut down on insurance …show more content…
J. (2014). Enterprise Crime. In L. J. Siegel, Criminology: The Core. Cengage Learning.
In this book, Siegel goes into detail of the nature of blue collar crime. Blue collar crime focuses on crimes committed by individuals from a lower social class than those associated with white collar crimes. Rather than focusing on those who may be CEO’s, blue collar crime focuses on the people that CEO’s employ. This chapter on blue collar crimes goes into detail about blue collar fraud, such as pilferage, management fraud, client fraud, health care fraud, and tax evasion. These particular crimes are some of the more common forms of blue collar crime, that take place on a daily basis.
Larry. J. Siegel is an experienced professor who has produced five versions of this very high selling criminal justice book. He has written many books in the areas of crime and justice, which include books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, criminal justice and criminal justice procedure. He is so experienced; he has been a key witness in numerous criminal cases. This expertise is what makes his work very credible, thus making it a very credible source for information on subjects dealing with criminology such as blue collar crime. This source is one of the more credible sources out of the five because of the content that is covered, and the fact that it is the textbook used for the
Blue Collar Crime
Maressa Hawkins
South Carolina State University
Annotated Bibliography
Blue Collar Crime
Brooks, G., Button, M., & Gee, J. (2012). The scale of health-care fraud: A global evaluation. Security Journal, 25(1), 76-87. This article points out the seriousness of health care fraud by providing the findings from a survey of fraud and error loss measurement in the health care areas of six different countries. Health care fraud is a blue collar crime that has seen a rise in recent times. This article points out that the legal definition of fraud; is defined as false representation abuse of position or failing to disclose information. Common types of fraud that occur within the health care …show more content…
As stated in this article, many companies set aside thousands of dollars in expected benefits for employees. These thousands of dollars can be exploited by employees claiming a niece or a nephew wo they are not taking care of. Oftentimes employees take these risk, because there is essentially no cost to employees other than having a family member removed from the program. Unfortunately, the people who do commit fraud and cause the dependent verification programs to exist may discourage people who actually have eligible dependents from applying. This article is written to explain the costs as well as the benefits of dependent verification programs that arise in an attempt to cut down on insurance …show more content…
J. (2014). Enterprise Crime. In L. J. Siegel, Criminology: The Core. Cengage Learning.
In this book, Siegel goes into detail of the nature of blue collar crime. Blue collar crime focuses on crimes committed by individuals from a lower social class than those associated with white collar crimes. Rather than focusing on those who may be CEO’s, blue collar crime focuses on the people that CEO’s employ. This chapter on blue collar crimes goes into detail about blue collar fraud, such as pilferage, management fraud, client fraud, health care fraud, and tax evasion. These particular crimes are some of the more common forms of blue collar crime, that take place on a daily basis.
Larry. J. Siegel is an experienced professor who has produced five versions of this very high selling criminal justice book. He has written many books in the areas of crime and justice, which include books on juvenile law, delinquency, criminology, criminal justice and criminal justice procedure. He is so experienced; he has been a key witness in numerous criminal cases. This expertise is what makes his work very credible, thus making it a very credible source for information on subjects dealing with criminology such as blue collar crime. This source is one of the more credible sources out of the five because of the content that is covered, and the fact that it is the textbook used for the