In the early 1980s, General Motors built a new Cadillac plant, which proved detrimental to Detroit's Poletown neighborhood (Cura, 77). While General Motors' intention was to promote its business interests, it destroyed the Poletown community due to population displacement and increased vandalism (Cura, 77). Furthermore, John Cura's "Power, Social Networks, and Organizational Deviance" reveals that many institutions sided with General Motors as opposed to the citizens of Poletown (Cura, 75-76). Additionally, “The Great Basketball Swindle” by Larry Penner, “Is the Use a Pretense of Public Purpose? by Jeffrey Kleeger, “Eminent Domain Fight Has a Canadian Twist” by Leslie Kaufman and Dan Frosch, and Casino Tries to Squash Property Owner” by Dana Berliner examine how private interests have more power than public interests. These are the sources that examine corporate deviance. Before General Motors moved into Poletown, a neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, it was a working-class neighborhood made up of Eastern Europeans (Cura, 72). According to “Power, Social Networks, and Organizational Deviance” by John Cura, “Coleman Young, the mayor of Detroit, and Thomas Murphy, president of General Motors (GM), announced that a new Cadillac plant (the Hamtramck plant) would be built. will soon be built in Detroit on a site that would include much of Poletown. The plant was touted as a renovation project for Detroit that would create jobs (GM claimed 6,000 workers would eventually be employed at the plant) and bring new promise to a city hit hard by economic recession and flight companies (Cura, 72 years old). The citizens of Poletown were upset by these plans, as it would require the taking of 465 acres of land in Poletown, on which their home...... middle of paper ......viance is being examined. Works Cited Berliner, Dana. “The casino is trying to crush the landowner.” Academic OneFile (2000): n. page. Academic OneFile. June 2000. The web. November 17, 2013.Cura, John. “Power, social networks and organizational deviance”. The relativity of deviance. Third ed. Los Angeles: Sage, nd 72-113. Print. Kaufman, Leslie and Dan Frosch. “The fight over eminent domain has a Canadian twist.” New York Times October 17, 2011: n. page. Print.Kleeger, Jeffrey. “Is the use a pretext of public utility.” Academic OneFile (2012): n. page. Print. Penner, Larry. “The Great Basketball Swindle.” Gale Group (nd): n. page. Academic OneFile. Internet. November 18. 2013. .