Corporate Crime Corporate Crime covers a wide area of offences and is heavily linked to the topic of White Collar Crime examined by Marxists in particularly.

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Corporate Crime Corporate Crime covers a wide area of offences and is heavily linked to the topic of White Collar Crime examined by Marxists in particularly. Corporate Crimes are offences committed by corporations/ businesses such as: > Not having correct permits/ licences > Failing to comply with health & safety/ other legal regulations (As you can see this covers a very broad definition of crime) > This differs to ‘Occupational Crime’ as it relates to companies (or people representing companies) committing crimes for the gain of the company as opposed to people committing crimes against their company. > Despite the seriousness and huge scale of corporate crimes we often only hear about low-level street crime – Why might this be? > Can you think of any examples of what the term Corporate Crime might cover?

Slapper & Tombs (1999) suggest that there are 6 main types of Corporate Crime: 1) Paperwork & Non-Compliance: > Having incorrect/ no permits or licences and/or failing to comply with legal regulations (often health & safety regulations ) > E.g. Herald of Free Enterprise disaster 1989: Capsized & a 197 people died as rules governing the closer of bow doors was neglected. 2) Labour Law Violations Crimes against employees : > Includes crimes such as failing to pay legally required minimum wages, ignoring legal working hour restrictions or failing to provide correct safety equipment for workers. > E.g. GAP using child labour in sweat shops

3) Unfair Trade Practices: Crime against customers > Includes crimes such as false advertising, price-fixing and illegally obtaining information on rival businesses. > E.g. UK Supermarkets were fined £116 Million in 2007 for fixing the price of milk and cheese, costing shoppers £270 Million more than they should have been paying. > These are offences such as misrepresentation, incorrect labelling & false advertising. They also include the production of dangerous & unsafe articles, counterfeiting & failing to recall faulty goods.

4) Financial Offences: > Includes crimes such as tax evasion and concealment of losses & debts. > E.g. In 2001 Enron hid debts of around $50 Billion – the company collapsed and many people lost their jobs and investments. 5) Environmental ‘Green’ Crime: > E.g. Companies knowingly damaging the environment and breaking laws on levels of pollution released into the environment. E.g. VW diesel emissions which were 40 times above the US legal limit When the government and businesses co operate to pursue their goals and crime is committed in the course of this co operation e.g. the involvement in the torture of prisoners in Iraq by private security firms contacted by the US government 6) State corporate crime:

Explaining Corporate Crime Being a Marxist, Box argues that Corporate Crime occurs due to the need to maintain profits in an growing Global- Capitalist world. This helps explain offences such as: Box (1983): Concealment of debts & losses to avoid bankruptcy Illegal dumping of waste to save costs Concealment of profits to avoid taxation Continuing sale of unsafe goods in other countries that failed tests in their own Concealment of dangerous products to avoid legal action

Corporate Crime & Official Statistics Corporate Crimes are often missing from Official Statistics or at the most the yare under-represented when compared to ‘typical’ working-class low-level street crimes such as burglary, knife crime, vandalism and vehicle crime. > How might this be explained? (Draw on your knowledge on theories of crime). Powerful People R/C Control the Media Hard to Detect Police Priorities Often not dealt with by the CJS Invisible crime