corporate crime

Question 1

Babiak and Hare
perosnality

Answer 1

• suggested that commercial businesses provide a setting in which people with psychopathic tendencies can flourish
• psychopaths/ people with anti - social personality disorder are goal driven tend to act recklessly and lack moral conscience.

Question 2

Edwin Sutherland

Answer 2

Differential association theory: crime as a product of learning and the nature range and intensity of the association we have with others

• offending suggests that through interactions with others individuals learn the values a, techniques and motivation for criminal behaviour

Question 3

Skyes and Matza

Answer 3

tecchniques of neutralisation’

Making it seem that such categories are legitimate

They propsed 5 major types of neutralisation techniques. 1 denial of responsibility 2 denial of injury 3 denial of the victim 4 condemati of the condemers 5 and appeal to higher

Question 4

Snider

Answer 4

• Marxists argue that on all 3 counts the scale is balanced in favour of corporate illegality
• non- reinforcement is the most frequent found characteristic. where enforcement is pursued, it tends to focus on the smallest and weakest organisation and the punishments following regulatory activity are typically light/.

Question 5

Rationl Actor theory

Answer 5

If crime is the result if rationa;l action there are 3 consideration that they are likley to consider

1 the likehood of beng caught

2 the likehood of being prosecuted if caught

3 the severity of any resulting punishments