TOFP Week 8 Discussion

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review the article “Personality, Environment, and the Causes of White-Collar Crime” in this week’s Learning Resources. Pay attention to the different personality traits linked to white-collar offenders.

Review the article “Criminal Thinking and Identity in Male White-Collar Offenders” in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider the characteristics of the different categories of white-collar offenders discussed in this article. Think about how these different characteristics would affect treatment approach.

Select one of the personality types (i.e., ultracompetitive, positive extrovert, disagreeable businessman, neurotic) discussed in the article “Personality, Environment, and the Causes of White-Collar Crime” that is of particular interest to you.

Identify a specific treatment approach for treating the type of white-collar offender you selected.

Conduct an academic search in the Walden Library and select at least one scholarly article from a peer-reviewed journal that features the treatment approach you selected. This treatment approach should demonstrate efficacy with your selected type of white-collar offender.

Think about the unique characteristics of your selected type of white-collar offender and reflect on any considerations related to the treatment of this type of offender.

Consider what challenges you might encounter while working with this group of white-collar offenders using the specific treatment approach you selected. Reflect on how you would address these challenges.

Review the course document, Treatment Outcome Models, provided in the introduction area of this week’s discussion.

Think about how treatment approach success could be evaluated using each of the treatment outcome models.

Select one treatment outcome model that you think would be the most effective for measuring the success of your treatment approach and consider why.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 a brief description of the research article you selected. Include the type of white-collar offender and the treatment approach. Then describe which treatment outcome model you would use to measure the success of the treatment approach and explain why.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.