Gilbert Geis

Gilbert Geis
Born
Gilbert Lawrence Geis

(1925-01-10)January 10, 1925
New York City, New York
DiedNovember 10, 2012(2012-11-10) (aged 87)
NationalityAmerican
EducationColgate University
Brigham Young University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known forResearch on white-collar crime
AwardsEdwin H. Sutherland Award (1985)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine
ThesisAmerican motion pictures in Norway: a study in international mass communications (1953)
Notable studentsRichard T. Wright (criminologist) John Braithwaite[2]

Gilbert Lawrence Geis (January 10, 1925 – November 10, 2012) was an American criminologist known for his research on white-collar crime.[3] He is particularly recognized for his paper "The Heavy Electric Equipment Antitrust Case of 1961", originally published in the 1967 book Criminal Behavior Systems: A Typology.[4][5]

He played a major role in founding the Department of Criminology, Law and Society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He also served as president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the American Society of Criminology. He was a member of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice convened by then-President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson. He was author of over 500 articles and book chapters, as well as twenty-eight books. He was described by Henry Pontell and Paul Jesilow as "one of the most prolific scholars in all of social science".[2]

  1. ^ "Obituaries". American Society of Criminology. 2012. Archived from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Gilbert Geis". University of California. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
  3. ^ Meier, Robert F. (2001). "Geis, Sutherland and white-collar crime". In Pontell, Henry; Shichor, David (eds.). Contemporary Issues in Crime & Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis. Prentice Hall.
  4. ^ Dodge, Mary (2005). "Geis, Gilbert (1925–)". Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. p. 349. doi:10.4135/9781412914260.n193. ISBN 9780761930044.
  5. ^ Pontell, Henry N. (2014). "Geis, Gilbert". The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1002/9781118517383.wbeccj450. ISBN 9781118517383.