Here are my reviews of the peer submissions: 1) Is the article's author's thesis clearly stated? Are the main points of the source clearly stated? (You want specificity rather than the general topic.) For the most part, the main points and thesis of each source are clearly stated in the summaries. For source 4, the main point about personality traits and willingness to commit crimes is clear. For source 3, the purpose of comparing seriousness ratings of white collar and street crimes is clear. One area for improvement is source 2 - the thesis could be more specific than just "investigating perception of white collar crime with a focus on gender." Specifying that it looks at how gender relates to perceptions of seriousness, motives,

1. Dodge, M., Bosick, S., Antwerp, V., & Benson, M. (2013). Do
Men and Women Perceive White-Collar and Street Crime
Differently? Exploring Gender Differences in the Perception of
Seriousness, Motives, and Punishment. Journal of Contemporary
Criminal Justice, 29(3), 399-415.
In this journal it talks about the public’s perception on white-
collar crime and its focus on gender. It talks about the
relationship between crime type and the respondent’s perception
of appropriate punishment and Its relation to gender. I do feel
like a weakness to this survey would be location. They chose to
talk to people that were coming from jury duty and I feel that
puts a bias factor on keeping the data general. Most people
coming from jury duty are most likely inclined to feel that the
criminals deserve to be charged. Which is shown in the results
because all respondents perceived the six crimes to be very
serious offense. I also feel that the scenarios should not have
been so vague as reported in the study because it does leave a
lot of room of confusion and misunderstanding for the people
filling out the survey. I do feel that this study is relative to my
paper because they talk about how public views the punishment,
attitudes and motivation which is going to interesting to do
more research.
Leeper Piquero, N., Carmichael, S., & Piquero, A. (2008).
Research Note: Assessing the Perceived Seriousness of White-
Collar and Street Crimes. Crime & Delinquency, 54(2), 291-
312.
In this journal it talks about the controversy surrounding the
ranking of crime seriousness of white-collar crimes relative to
street crimes. I do feel that a limitation in this study is that they
did not include enough varieties in crimes which could alter the
results possibly. I found this survey interesting because I feel
that it was the most random survey done. I feel like the
information on here would be the most accurate in getting a

2. consensus on the public’s opinion. I also liked how they
included the criminal justice system personnel’s perception in
the study because no other study discussed that which gives a
whole different perspective on my whole topic. This will help
my paper because they used random, national probability
samples that will help my theory that white-collar crime is as
bad or even worse than street crime.
Michel, C. (2016). Violent Street Crime Versus Harmful White-
Collar Crime: A Comparison of Perceived Seriousness and
Punitiveness. Critical Criminology, 24(1), 127-143.
In this journal it talks about how studies have opposed old
understandings of the publics feelings towards white-collar
crime. They participants were asked to look at white-collar
crimes and non-violent street crimes and then decided which of
the two was more serious. Some strengths of this study is that
they used Amazon Mechanical Turk which helped the analysis
be less bias. I think a weakness of this study would be that the
vagueness of the vignettes as described in the limitation's
sections. “Verbiage used in the scenarios was admittedly vague
and possibly induced the same kind of bias previously observed
in research” (Michel). This information is useful to me because
it described the analysis that supports my idea that White-collar
crime is more dangerous than street crime.
Poortinga, E., Lemmen, C. and Jibson, M. (2006). A Case
Control Study: White‐Collar Defendants Compared With
Defendants Charged With Other Nonviolent Theft. [online]
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Available at: http://jaapl.org/content/34/1/82 [Accessed 25 Sep.
2019].
In this journal it discusses the clinical, criminal and
sociodemographic characteristics of all white-collar crime
defendants. I found this study interesting because they had to
put in so much time reviewing almost 30,000 defendants' files

3. to gather their data. This study also goes into detail discussing
the amount of money these criminals stole, and behaviors like
gambling, military status, education and race. This information
will help me find more areas that I did not really think about
when doing my original search for research. I do think this
study could have been more effective if it was done on a more
national level but starting in one county is a good start. The
researchers also could not validate some data because they were
just looking at files which could possibly mean some files could
be missing information or could be incorrect.
Watt, R. (2012). University students' propensity towards white-
collar versus street crime. Studies by Undergraduate
Researchers at Guelph, 5(2), 5.
In this journal students at the University of Guelph studied
“role that personality plays in explaining the causes of white-
collar crimes” (Watt). Students were measured on self-control
and desire for control to determine the extent to which these
factors affect the propensity to commit either street crime or
white-collar crime. A limitation in this study would be that it
was only given to university students. So, the results cannot be
generalized for the entire population. Also, I did not like some
of the questions that were asked during the survey. I like this
study because it talks about self-control and desire for control
which will be an interesting topic for my literature review and
will help me dive into more than just the criminology side of
why these crimes happen.
APA Citation
Purpose
Method
Sample
Findings
Themes

4. Similarities
Uniqueness
Source 2:
Dodge, M., Bosick, S., Antwerp, V., & Benson, M. (2013). Do
Men and Women Perceive White-Collar and Street Crime
Differently? Exploring Gender Differences in the Perception of
Seriousness, Motives, and Punishment. Journal of Contemporary
Criminal Justice, 29(3), 399-415.
The purpose of this article is to investigate perception of white-
collar crime with a focus on gender. This article talks about the
relationship between crime type and the respondent’s perception
of appropriate punishment and Its relation to gender.
This is a secondary analysis. Data was collected from 900 El
Paso County residents in 2011. They read a scenario and were
asked to answer some questions.
Each person was asked to read 1 crime scenario. They were
given 1 of 6 crime types, either street crime or white-collar
crime. Then, they had to rate: the seriousness of the crime, type
of punishment deserved, remorse felt by defendant and extent to
which the crime was motivated by greed and stress.
White-collar crime was found to be as serious as street crime.
Ponzi crime received the highest ratings for seriousness, while
prostitution received the lowest. Every white-collar crime
received a higher rating for greed than street crime. White-
collar offenders were not viewed as having more stress.
Women’s perspective on white-collar crimes.
Men’s perspective on white-collar crimes.
I found this unique because the data showed that prostitution
had the lowest seriousness in crime. I feel that is a new way of

5. thinking compared to years in the past where prostitution was a
huge epidemic.
Source 3:
Leeper Piquero, N., Carmichael, S., & Piquero, A. (2008).
Research Note: Assessing the Perceived Seriousness of White-
Collar and Street Crimes. Crime & Delinquency, 54(2), 291-
312.
The purpose of this study is to compare the seriousness ratings
of several white-collar and street crimes and examines the
factors that distinguish seriousness ratings across the crime
types.
This is a secondary analysis. The National White-Collar Crime
Center conducted a single session telephone interview of U.S
citizens using a random digit dialing system.
Survey participants were asked to compare the seriousness of
white-collar crimes to street crimes. 6 different scenarios were
split into two different groups.
Certain types of white-collar crimes are ranked as more serious
than street crimes and that a limited set of demographic
correlates distinguish seriousness ratings across the two crime
types.
Public’s view on white-collar crimes.
Ratings of white-collar crimes.
I like this survey because I felt it was done in the most random
way possibly, which gives better results.
Source 5

6. Michel, C. (2016). Violent Street Crime Versus Harmful White-
Collar Crime: A Comparison of Perceived Seriousness and
Punitiveness. Critical Criminology, 24(1), 127-143.
The purpose of this study was to better understand the publics
feelings towards white-collar crimes in contrast with violent
street crimes.
A survey was made available on Mechanical Turk on 04/1/13
for 500 participants. They were asked to read vignettes
describing violent street crimes and physically harmful white-
collar crimes, compare their seriousness, and determine
appropriate sanctions.
They compared the sentiments about white-collar crimes and
violent street crimes. The measures included; subjects’
perceived seriousness of these offenses, and their punitiveness
toward their respective perpetrators.
Participants perceived the violent crime scenarios presented to
them to be more serious than harmful white-collar crime
vignettes. So, they were less punitive toward white-collar
offenders compared with street criminals.
Public’s feelings towards white collar crimes.
Publics feelings towards violent street crimes.
I find this study unique because it was the first one I read that
actually discarded some of its surveys due to incompletes and
those who completed the survey too quickly.
Source 1:
Poortinga, E., Lemmen, C. and Jibson, M. (2006). A Case
Control Study: White‐Collar Defendants Compared With
Defendants Charged With Other Nonviolent Theft. [online]
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Available at: http://jaapl.org/content/34/1/82 [Accessed 25 Sep.
2019].
The purpose of this study was to examine a clinical, criminal
and sociodemographic characteristics of all white-collar crime

7. defendants referred to the evaluation unit of a state center for
forensic psychiatry.
The data was collected by adding up all defendants charged with
white-collar crimes (73) and all other crimes from 1991 to 2002.
Control subjects were selected from defendants remanded to the
Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry by the courts for
psychiatric assessment.
They reviewed evaluation letters to the court, police reports,
and prior medical records. They also investigated symptoms of
depression before and after the defendant was charged.
White-collar defendants were found to be mostly white, more
years of education, and a lower likelihood of substance abuse
than nonviolent theft.
White –collar offenders clinical characteristics.
White-collar offenders' sociodemographic characteristics.
Demographics of nonviolent theft criminals.
I found this unique because most other studies focused on
white-collar crimes versus violent crimes, and this one focused
on nonviolent crimes.
Source 4:
Watt, R. (2012). University students' propensity towards white-
collar versus street crime. Studies by Undergraduate
Researchers at Guelph, 5(2), 5.
Students at a university studied the role that personality plays in
explaining the causes of white-collar crimes.
Guelph University students were emailed a link to a survey.
SurveyMonkey was used to collect the data. They were asked to
rate personal statements from 1-7. The statements regarded
desire for control, self-control, crimes and vignettes
The findings found that self-control has the most significant
effect on offending, but only when students indicated that they
were willing to commit both street and white-collar crime.
Desire for control did not predict a propensity towards

8. committing either types of crime.
Crime profiling, personality traits in crime offenders,
I found this one unique because the study focused on students at
a university and their willingness to commit a crime. Other
studies were based on others committing crimes.
Answer each question for each entry. Don’t just answer yes/no
to the questions. Detail your answers; if the thesis isn’t clear,
why isn’t it? If there are incorrect citations, what are they? If
something isn’t clear to you, why? Be of as much help as you
can for your fellow students.
Your reviews will be assessed for how thoroughly you
scrutinize your colleagues’ papers, how useful your comments
are, and grammar/etc. Your grade will be considered as your
second discussion grade.
1) Is the article’s author's thesis clearly stated? Are the main
points of the source clearly stated? (You want specificity rather
than the general topic.)
2) Is the evaluation clear? (Be sure that it cannot be confused
with summary.)
3) Is the statement of use [relevance to the student's paper]
clearly stated?
4) Is the citation correctly formatted according to APA
guidelines?
5) Where did this source come from? (e.g., [peer-reviewed
journal in sociology], etc.)

9. 6) Are the annotations free of all
spelling/mechanical/grammatical/etc. errors?
Data Table Peer Review
Same Due Date and Submission Requirements as Above
1) Are the findings thoroughly addressed?
2) Are there multiple authors given for each main
theme/finding addressed in the “Similarities” section? (There
should be at least two or three in the early stages of research.
By the time that you finish your research/data table with all 15
sources, there should be more than three. Multiple sources
within a single parenthetical citation should be the rule rather
than the exception in a literature review.)
3) Are the entries free of all
spelling/mechanical/grammatical/etc. errors, where relevant?