“…5 Certain characteristics such as psychopathy, self-deception, or emotionality are expected to increase antisocial and offending behavior across the board, but others have unique directional effects for different types of offenders. Raine et al (2012) suggested that high executive functioning and other neurobiological correlates of white-collar crime may confer advantage in navigating the structure and culture of complex organizations and thus increase the likelihood of, say, participation in complex fraud schemes as opposed to stealing from the till. In the corporate context, desire for control-a psychological construct defined as the need to exercise dominance over everyday events-has been found to increase one's willingness to engage in corporate offending (see, e.g., Piquero and her collaborators- Piquero, Exum, & Simpson, 2005;Piquero, Schoepfer, & Langton, 2010), especially when decision makers are under the "illusion of control."…”