The three forms of experiment in the study of white collar crime are laboratory, field, and natural. The laboratory form is seldom used because most of what is sought to be learned about white collar crime cannot be learned through the controlled and contained setting of a laboratory (Friedrichs, 2009). An example of a laboratory experiment would be to have two groups of subjects divided by eye color (blue and brown) with an instructor in the laboratory (or any manufactured, controlled setting). The instructor would then inform both groups that the brown-eyed group is superior and that the blue eyed group is naturally inferior and stupid and then proceed to repeat this throughout the session and then observe how the brown-eyed group treated
