Involvement

Involvement in Control Theory means that extensive involvement in legitimate activities will inhibit deviance while limited involvement will foster deviance. Those who are heavily engaged in accepted activities are less likely than those who have much free time to become deviant. (Orcutt)

Spending most of his time as a businessman, father, and husband in India, Michael was thoroughly busy with his legitimate roles. Likewise, Jean was also occupied with her legitimate roles and had no reason to deviate. Unlike those with ample free time, both Jean and Michael were heavily engaged and had no real reason to fight the system. Though Jean was less comfortable with bribing than Michael, having never witnessed a bribe until with being pulled over by a cop with Michael, she admitted that she had bribed and that bribery is always illegal but India's system functioned with it. There is dual money, white money and black money. White money was very little, black money was what helped people to raise their family. (Interview 47:02) Undoubtedly, bribing aided her and others raise their own families, fulfilling their involvement to the socially accepted roles given them.