White-Collar and Corporate Crime

• Strain and Relative Deprivation says the success of middle class people lead to a desire of even more success by any means
• Control Theory says middle class individuals will take illegal shortcuts to gain the most money for a company
• Differential Association says when people are associated with crime by their groups they are more likely to begin committing crime - for personal or business benefit
• Marxists believe the push for corporate crime is due to crimogenic capitalism
• Nelken says middle class people are able to escape claims of deviance as it as seen as just company activities
• Postmodernists (Katz) suggest crime is a seductive and pleasurable experience