What is the relationship between entrepreneurship and crime? Does this make the criminals less or more dangerous? What about the crime itself, do you feel it is less or more serious? Why?

I found this line in a recent John Griham bestseller.  "Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types."

The distance between the criminal and the successful entrepreneur is not so very far.  We both intuitively operate out-of-the-box with an instinct for not accepting the status quo.  We both are not inclined to accept the tyranny of the given.  We both intuitively color outside the lines.

Note the work of Bill McCarthy (UC Davis) and John Hagan (Northwestern) who report that people who are the most successful at crime have a strong desire to succeed, to take risk and to live by their own rules.  Hmm.  Sounds very much like most driven entrepreneurs.