The recent increase of industrial security crimes is drawing attention to the importance and necessity of industrial security. This is because industrial security crimes can fundamentally undermine the competitiveness of companies. Nevertheless, the researches on industrial security crimes have been very poor. Theoretical analysis and research on industrial security crimes are also essential in that the need for industrial security stems from the seriousness of industrial security crimes. The results of theoretical verification showed that the clap theory met the conditions of logical consistency, comprehensive scope, parsimony, and testability. However, the assessment of empirical validity and academic and policy utility criteria that must be verified through specific examples and data analysis cannot be met. It would require verification through subsequent empirical studies. With a short history of academia and a lack of research, such as the field of industrial security, the establishment of theories and the emergence of other theories based on the criticism of the former theories are essential parts for the academic development. The dialectical development process of theory in which theories that show limitations in explaining socio-economic changes are replaced by new theories is applied to industrial security research as well. That is why the clap theory was suggested despite many limitations and problems. The verification of empirical validity and usefulness would be subsequent research tasks.