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

1. According to Hirschi and Gottfredson’s general theory of crime, an attempt to satisfy self-interest can be applied to explaining white collar but not conventional offending.
2. The rational choice perspective has been applied to the decision-making processes within corporations, as well as to individual offenders.
3. Like most theories, Hirschi’s social control theory asks why people do not engage in criminal behavior.
4. William Black developed his control fraud theory specifically out of his engagement in the S & L debacle of the 1980s.
5. Black posits in the control fraud theory that when control over an organization is realized, that organization becomes a “weapon” for perpetrating fraud and theft, thus never becoming a victim of such crime itself.


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

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