SOC 2760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Barings Bank, Homicide, Thalidomide

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Rob Shearer

Document Summary

Punch - 5 questions: key influences of managerial behaviour; examples of cases of corporate violence; typical characteristics of offenders; reasons why offenders avoid sanctions and penalties; causes as to why companies take risks and shortcuts. Influenced by shifts in market conditions that affect their competitive positions. The legal clout of business has a direct influence on the inferences that academics can make about business deviance. Superiors have a major influence on unethical practices. Size, complexity, and segmentation of responsibility can create an environment of lack of control, deviant subcultures, and poor communication. Explosion at the union carbide factory in bhopal, india. Ford pinto (fire after rear-end collisions) (first major us corporation to be charged with reckless homicide, unsuccessful) Barings bank ( rogue trader ) (bankrupt company - management) Townsend thoresen ( herald of free enterprises ) - ferry sunk in english. Nasa challenger disaster (managerial pressure, shortcuts) channel due to negligence. Law is more focused on individuals instead of organizations.