Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Differential opportunity theory and status deprivation theory were originally developed to account for white collar offenses.
2. For Marx and Engels, the worst crimes were those committed by capitalists against workers.
3. The Marxist explanation for white collar crime has been applied to 19th-century capitalist crimes, but not to similar crimes in the latter part of the 20th –century, because Marxist theory had lost all prestige with the downfall of communism.
4. The Marxist account is not very helpful in explaining why some individuals within capitalist societies engage in white collar crime while others do not.
5. “Performance pressures” in socialistic countries can be regarded as the equivalent of the capitalist drive for profit, in explaining white collar crime.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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