Frank Abagnale Research Paper

Frank Abagnale born April 27 1948 as the son of a business owner, entering the world of crime as a youngster. Frank began his ways with crime when his parents divorced, having a dramatic bearing on him. Starting out with credit card and cheque schemes, he later progressed onto the impersonations of many white collar professionals including airline pilots, creating an international trail. To this day Frank Abagnale is one of the world’s most respected authorities on forgery, embezzlement and secure documents. In order to understand how Abagnale went from being a criminal to one of the worlds most respected authority figures on forgery, we must understand his background.
Abagnale’s first victim was his own father, a role model for Abagnale and an affluent local. His father …show more content…
His sentence, one year in Perpignan's "House of Arrest," Frank Abagnale thinking this was a short sentence was clueless to how long his sentence would be in such a place. Later reduced to six months by the presiding judge. At Perpignan's "House of Arrest" Abagnale was held nude in a small, lifeless and dark cell in which he would not be able to leave until his sentence was complete. Frank Abagnale describes Perpignan's "House of Arrest," “There was no light switch. There was no light in the cell. There was, in fact, nothing in the cell but a bucket. No bed, no toilet, no wash basin, no drain, nothing. Just the bucket. The cell was not a cell, actually, it was a hole, a raised dungeon perhaps five feet wide, five feet high and five feet deep, with a ceiling and door of steel and a floor and walls of stone”. Perpignan's "House of Arrest" was not aimed to rehabilitate prisoners, it was meant for the retribution of the prisoners. With irregular meal times and a lifeless cell, Abagnale in the attempt to keep from going insane, he would mesmerize over images in his