Symbolic Interactionalism would be the best choice of theory to analyze the increase in white collar crime in an area. Because this theory is built around a central idea that people are active in creating their lives, using this approach would allow me to understand the contributing factors which might be causing a rise in white collar crime. Some of the contributing factors affecting an individual are the smaller groups which an individual learns the behavior, acceptance of deviant behavior within an individual’s group, and how the specific group of influencing factors collectively contribute to white collar crime.
According to Lauer and Lauer ( 2014), “a symbolic interactionist would stress the fact that people learn criminal behavior by interacting with, and accepting for themselves the perspective of, others who approve of such behavior” (p.8). This would certainly apply in a white collar environment, where there are fine lines between criminal and unethical behavior, and because the behavior is generally accepted in the group. …show more content…
He believed that crime was a learned behavior, and was learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication (Differential Association, 2016). Again, this particular theory lends itself to evaluating the social norms in a group where the work of an individual doesn’t necessarily allow for detection of deviant behavior, and perhaps isn’t even realized as such within a group of people.
While there is certainly an element of exploitation in some white collar crime, conflict theory would not independently be a productive way to evaluate the rise of white collar crime because there doesn’t seem to be a need to compare competing groups of people, nor is there a need to evaluate power struggles between different groups to determine what is causing additional white collar
According to Lauer and Lauer ( 2014), “a symbolic interactionist would stress the fact that people learn criminal behavior by interacting with, and accepting for themselves the perspective of, others who approve of such behavior” (p.8). This would certainly apply in a white collar environment, where there are fine lines between criminal and unethical behavior, and because the behavior is generally accepted in the group. …show more content…
He believed that crime was a learned behavior, and was learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication (Differential Association, 2016). Again, this particular theory lends itself to evaluating the social norms in a group where the work of an individual doesn’t necessarily allow for detection of deviant behavior, and perhaps isn’t even realized as such within a group of people.
While there is certainly an element of exploitation in some white collar crime, conflict theory would not independently be a productive way to evaluate the rise of white collar crime because there doesn’t seem to be a need to compare competing groups of people, nor is there a need to evaluate power struggles between different groups to determine what is causing additional white collar