ABSTRACT
Edwin Sutherland, in his 1939 presidential address to the American Sociological Society, highlighted a problem with creating a demographic portrait of offenders based on known violators. This chapter focuses on deviant physicians and presents current knowledge on the demographic portrait of these violators. It focuses on physicians in part because they illustrate Sutherland's observation that the offenses of white-collar criminals are rarely handled by the criminal justice system. The chapter presents what is known of the demographic characteristics of physician violators. One set of studies on the demographic portrait of physician violators has utilized quantitative data that are available from the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE). In recent times, physicians who appear on the LEIE are excluded from participating in federal healthcare programs, and they may not receive federal payment for services provided to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and to recipients of other federally funded healthcare programs.
