Explanations of corporate crime
- Created by: Azia Singh
- Created on: 12-10-16 13:15
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- Explanations of corporate crime
- Strain theory
- Box: if a company cannot achieve its goal of maximising profit by legal means, it may employ illegal ones instead
- Differential association
- If a company's culture justifies committing crimes to achieve corporate goals, employees will be socialised into this criminality
- Labelling theory
- Nelken: delabelling (unlike the poor, businesses and professionals often have the power to avoid labelling)
- Marxism
- Strain theory
- Box: capitalism has created mystification
- Pearce: this sustains the illusion that it is the exception rather than the norm, and thus avoids causing a crisis of legitimacy for capitalism
- Marxism
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