TY - JOUR T1 - A Case Control Study: White‐Collar Defendants Compared With Defendants Charged With Other Nonviolent Theft JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 82 LP - 89 VL - 34 IS - 1 AU - Ernest Poortinga AU - Craig Lemmen AU - Michael D. Jibson Y1 - 2006/01/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/34/1/82.abstract N2 - We examined the clinical, criminal, and sociodemographic characteristics of all white‐collar crime defendants referred to the evaluation unit of a state center for forensic psychiatry. With 29,310 evaluations in a 12‐year period, we found 70 defendants charged with embezzlement, 3 with health care fraud, and no other white‐collar defendants (based on the eight crimes widely accepted as white‐collar offenses). In a case‐control study design, the 70 embezzlement cases were compared with 73 defendants charged with other forms of nonviolent theft. White‐collar defendants were found to have a higher likelihood of white race (adjusted odds ratio (adj. OR) = 4.51), more years of education (adj. OR = 3471), and a lower likelihood of substance abuse (adj. OR = .28) than control defendants. Logistic regression modeling showed that the variance in the relationship between unipolar depression and white‐collar crime was more economically accounted for by education, race, and substance abuse. ER -