Understanding Corporate

Crime – Steven Box

A.Mahyani,SH,MH,MSi
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 Understanding Corporate Crime, Steven Box

ORGANIZATION CONTRADICTIONS EXAMPLES OF CRIMES

GOAL BETWEEN COMITTED
CORPORATION GOAL
AND NEEDS OF:
Prioritization of profit
(growth, market control) Industrial espionage ilegal
COMPETITORS
competition, from price fixing to
arson
Realized through STATE Illegal political campaign funds,
Misinformation to regulatory
agency.
INDIVIDUAL Unsafe machinery, unhealthy
CHARACTERISTICS EMPLOYESS
conditions, illegal harrasment of
Anomie of succes unions, inc. use of organized
Unlimited ambition, crime syndicates.
Shrewdness and moral
flexibility (all seen as CONSUMERS Advertising fraud, poisonous
situational demands and and dangerous products, price
learnt in association with fixing.
other corporation PUBLIC Pollution, plunder of national
executives) resources, tax evasion

MOTIVE FOR CORPORATE CRIME

Rational solutional to problems created by contradictions between
corporation and environment

Transformed into corporate crime by

IDEOLOGY LAW ENFORCEMENT OPPORTUNITY

Subculture of Unaware victim + Law surveillance +

structured ineffective inspection +
immoralities-not minuscule fines and
responsible, no trivial prison sentence =
victim, wrongly little criminalization
interfered with, stigmatization = lack of
higher morality of detterence (general and
business and free spesific) = “crime pays”,
enterprise crimes of enormity sanctifics no
the powerfull made societal reaction + little
respectable and media denunciation =
invicible collective moral
boundaries not affirmed
nature of criminal
law emphasizing
intent + resources
to shape criminal
law crimes of the
powerfull mad
respectable and
invisible

CORPORATE CRIME

A.Mahyani,SH,MH,MSi