1. Organizational Criminology
Studying Corruption:
Organizational Criminology
Roland Moerland
Department of Criminal Law and Criminology

2. Introduction Case: 12 Angry Men Explaining behavior…
Studying crime: Classical criminology
Studying crime: Organizational criminology
Defining and Visualizing the organization
Organizational structure
Shapiro: The social organization of trust

3. Case: 12 Angry Men

4. How to explain their behavior?
Look at individual jurors? or
Look at institutional characteristics of jury?

5. Studying Crime: Classical Criminology
 Explaining crime
Elements of crime
Motive: reason for action
Means: instrument/tool used in action
Opportunity: condition favorable to action
 Implications for prevention?

6. Organizational criminology?
The organizational society…
Relatively new sub-discipline
Specialized field of knowledge
Extension study of white collar crime
Sutherland: persons vs. companies
A different perspective on criminality
Agency vs. Formal and informal constraints
Perception determines approach

7. Studying Crime: Organizational Criminology
 Explaining crime
Organizational structure/configuration
Provides for elements of crime
The criminogenic organization
Crime facilitative/coercive organizations
 Implications for prevention?

8. Defining the organization
Means to and end (goal orientated)
Collection of roles (participants)
Normative order (rules)
Hierarchy (ranks of authority)
Technology (hardware + knowledge)
Systems (coordination/communication)
Environment (space outside boundaries)

9. Mintzberg: Visualizing the organization

10. Organizational structure
Organizational paradox:
Division of labor - differentiation
Coordination – integration
Tension creates pyramidal configuration

11. Shapiro: Social organization of trust
Trust is vital in organizational functioning
Principle – agent relationship
Abuse of implied trust… a crime?
Implications for prevention and control?

12. Questions and remarks…? !