CRIM 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporate Crime, Environmental Crime, Price Fixing
6 Oct 2016
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Corporate criminality causes less damage -economic/physical than traditional street crimes. Issue corporate crimes in terms of individual misconduct. Corporate crimes are accidents or oversights -lack criminal intend. Laws/enforcement are more than sufficient to deal with the problems. Cjs can only do so little to prevent street crimes. Total violent crime/property crime combined is less threat to society than corporate crime. Higher immorality -damage to social fabric, health, safety of country. Street crimes much less significant in cost than white-collar crimes. Costs of air pollution, toxic chemical dumping, diseases by company are impossible to track. 400~500 billion a year 30 times of street crime. 30 000 deaths from sale of unsafe products. 20000 deaths from various forms of environmental pollution. Three strikes policy apparently doesn"t apply to corporate crime. Fraud for not disclosing all of its data about the effects. Represent only tiny portion, tip of the iceberg. Price fixing, tax fraud, environmental crime 1975 to 1984.
