Crimes of the powerful Flashcards
(21 cards)
white collar crime sutherland
‘crime commited by person of respectability + high social status in course of his occupation’
Ocupational crime
commited by employees for personal gain - embezzelment
Corperate crime
by employees for their organisation in pursute of goals
Tombs
Argues that powerful corps can influence the law so that their actions are not criminalised
Tombs scale of CC
CC has enormous cost - physical, environmental, economic, workers ect
CC isnt just the work of a few ‘bad apples’ but ‘widesoread routine o pervasives’
Financial crimes
tax evasion
moey laundering
bribary
Crimes against consumers
Falsy labelling/ selling unfitv goods France breast implants 300,000 implants sold
Crimes against emploees
sexual, racial, violations
tombs
1,100 work related deaths a yr
State-corperate crime
harms when govt and buiesness corp committed to goal
- PPE medpro
- grenfell
- Trump
Abuse of trust
Carrabine et al
we trust them with finances, health security personal info
- position and status give opp to abuse trust
Abuse of trust case
Lucy letby - nurse
Invisibility of corp crime - media
media gives little attention - bourgises owns the media narrative
doesn’t sell well for TV
Invisibility of corp crime - political
lack of politicians who attack CC
being ‘tough on crime’ = sreet petty crime
Invisibility of corp crime - de labelling
filtered out of process of criminatisation
negotiation of justice
Partial visibility of crime
since 2008 financial crisis made CC mlore visable
Explainations for CC - strain theory
merton = WC
**Box if a company can’t achieve goaln of maximising profits legitimately means may employ illigal ones **
Explainations for CC - diff association
Sutherland crime leart fromn others in social context
companies culture justifies commiting crimes - socialised into criminaltiy
Gies - illigal price fixing
Explainations for CC - labelling
de-labelling
Nelken buiesness professionals can avoid being labelled - law enforcement agences less likley to procecute
Explainations for CC - Marxism
‘dog eat dog society’
Box - mystification spread the ideology that crop crime is less widespread or harmful than WC
Pearce - sustains the illusion that its the exception rather than the norm
CC eval - Nelken
unrealistic to assume that all buiesnesses would offend were it not for the risk of punishment - maintaining good will of other companies may prevent them from resoting to crime
CC eval braithwaite
following law may be more profitable
US pharmacies followed reg for US products and can access more lucrative markets in poorer countreis
