Corporate and white-collar crimes

    Consider briefly discussing how current enforcement of laws against corporate and white-collar crimes (illegal restraint of trade, price-fixing, false advertising, environmental pollution, insider trading, etc.) reflect the views of Marxist criminologists. Offenders frequently receive much more lenient punishments than those who commit street-level property crimes (e.g., theft, burglary). How would conflict theories (there are many branches with this school of theories) explain this?