Globalisation and crime - corporate crime
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- Created on: 10-06-22 10:27
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- Corporate crime
- Definitions - Sutherland
- White collar crime - committed by a person in high status in their occupation
- Occupational crime - done by employees of a company for their own gain. Against the company or its customers
- Corporate crime - done by a company or its employees for the gain of the company
- Why does corporate crime occur?
- Differential association theory
- When a company’s culture justifies crime as a legitimate way of achieving, socialisation into this occurs and crime rises
- Techniques of neutralisation (Sykes and Matza)
- When employees can legitimise their immorality act more deviantly
- Acting on behalf of another
- Normalisationof the crime
- Victim blaming
- When employees can legitimise their immorality act more deviantly
- Merton’s strain theory
- When the goal is not met (profit) they innovate to reach the goal
- Crime increases when business conditions are tight
- When the goal is not met (profit) they innovate to reach the goal
- Labelling
- Companies can negotiate negative labelling due to status
- Statistics are under representativeof corporate crime
- Delabelling
- Marxist view
- Mystification around corporate crime (Box)
- Corporate crime is seen as the exception rather than the norm (Pearce)
- Differential association theory
- Examples of corporate crime:
- Use of industrial silicone rather than medical in breast implants
- The horse meat scandal
- Panama and subsequent pandora papers
- Exposing individuals who have evaded tax etc
- Why is corporate crime so hard to detect?
- Media does not report
- Politicians do not deal with corporate crime as it does not benefit them
- MPs and ex PMs named in Panama papers
- Focus on street crime
- Complexity of corporate crime makes it difficult to understand and investigate
- Sentencing differences between corporate and civilian crime
- Setttlement out of court
- Fines rather than custodial sentences
- Definitions - Sutherland
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