SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Apple Juice, Westray Mine, Walmart

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

By concentrating on what is officially defined as illegal or criminal, a more serious threat to society is left out. Conrad black: corporate crime corporate representatives wilfully violate the laws that restrain these institutions from doing social harm. Socially injurious acts committed by companies to further their business interests: general public, environment, company s workers. Corporate crime is legally entitled a person. General public (consumers target of corporate crime: nestle in 1970 s. Critisized for selling baby formula to poor women in third world countries convincing them that it is superior to breast milk (not true: dalkon shield in 1980 s. Made and distributed faulty iuds that caused serious infection and death. When no longer allowed to be sold in american markets, they continued to sell to third world women: grimshaw v. ford motor company rejecting safety designs costing between . 80 and 15. 30 per pinto.