Gilbert Geis

{{Short description|American criminologist (1925–2012)}}

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| birth_name = Gilbert Lawrence Geis

| birth_date = {{birth date |1925|01|10}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York

| death_date = {{death date and age |2012|11|10|1925|01|10}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Criminology

| workplaces = University of California, Irvine

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| education = Colgate University
Brigham Young University
University of Wisconsin–Madison

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| thesis_title = American motion pictures in Norway: a study in international mass communications

| thesis_url = https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005821529

| thesis_year = 1953

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| notable_students = Richard T. Wright (criminologist)

John Braithwaite

| known_for = Research on white-collar crime

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| awards = Edwin H. Sutherland Award (1985){{Cite web |url=https://www.asc41.com/obituaries/2012obits.html |title=Obituaries |date=2012 |website=American Society of Criminology |access-date=2019-01-07 |archive-date=2020-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716024740/https://www.asc41.com/obituaries/2012obits.html |url-status=dead }}

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Gilbert Lawrence Geis (January 10, 1925 – November 10, 2012) was an American criminologist known for his research on white-collar crime.{{Cite book |title=Contemporary Issues in Crime & Criminal Justice: Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis |last=Meier |first=Robert F. |publisher=Prentice Hall |year=2001 |editor-last=Pontell |editor-first=Henry |editor-link=Henry Pontell |chapter=Geis, Sutherland and white-collar crime |editor-last2=Shichor |editor-first2=David |chapter-url=https://www.acfe.com/article.aspx?id=4294977167}} 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.{{Cite encyclopedia |chapter=Geis, Gilbert (1925–) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime |publisher=SAGE Publications|location=Thousand Oaks, California |chapter-url=http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/corporatecrime/n193.xml |last=Dodge |first=Mary |date=2005 |pages=349 |doi=10.4135/9781412914260.n193|isbn=9780761930044 }}{{Cite encyclopedia |chapter=Geis, Gilbert |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |last=Pontell |first=Henry N. |date=2014 |pages=1–5 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781118517383.wbeccj450 |isbn=9781118517383}}

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".{{Cite web |url=https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/GilbertGeis.html |title=Gilbert Geis |website=University of California |access-date=2019-01-07}}