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    Corporate Crime The question before our society is not whether corporate crime is a victimless crime, rather the question is what should be done about it? Corporate crime doesn’t just do harm to the investors that can be unknowingly damaged by these crimes, it has a much more insidious nature to it as it has done harm on global scales. Corporate crime is almost a misnomer because many of these criminal wrongdoings are for the most part legal, when not taken to their ultimate conclusion. Society

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    Corporate crime is not taken seriously and the regulatory agencies appear powerless as the penalties available to them are ineffective in sufficiently punishing criminal acts and preventing future crimes. As investigations and methods of law enforcement are incredibly time consuming and costly, the current most effective punishments of committing a corporate crime are the use of; recalls, unilateral orders, consent agreements, decrees

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    An Explanation of Corporate Crime This analytical source review will analyse and detail the views and opinions of four different sources including: The sociology of corporate crime: an obituary, Corporate Crime, Corporate Crime at the tip of the iceberg and White Collar and Corporate Crime. The topic this review will be primarily concerned with is corporate crime, the topic will be examined and the notion of ignorance towards the subject will be addressed. However

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    Committing a corporate crime seems tempting at times, and the culprits usually feel as if their crime is justified. They justify their choice to steal from the company by assuming that the only person who would be affected is the CEO, or somebody that would not notice a dent in their hefty salary. However, it is naive to think of these types of crimes in a way that doesn’t adequately explain the ripple affect each crime has on society. The main goal of this proposal is to explain how corporate crimes affect

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    Corporate Crime Wave

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    The Global Economy’s Corporate Crime Wave discusses world corporate crime and how the influence of money corrupts politics and the economic markets. The power of corporations on our culture is interesting and the depth of corruption, is in moments implausible. Jeffery D. Sachs is a professor and a writer. Sachs writes articles for Project Syndicate, a world’s opinion website and has written books that include: The End of Poverty, Common Wealth and The Age of Sustainable Development. Sachs background

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    Corporate crime is considered a form of white-collar crime that is committed by persons of respectability and high social status, white collars crimes are believed to be committed by business people. Some people believe that this is a crime that is committed by the very rich, people that are of high social status corporate crime are by far the worst, because corporate crimes are considered white collars crimes, and what is believed is that white collars crimes are committed by business people (Cavender

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    collar and corporate crime tend to go undetected, Or if detected not prosecuted White collar and corporate crimes are crimes that many people do not associate with criminal activity. Yet the cost to the country due to corporate and white collar crime far exceeds that of “street” crime and benefit fraud. White collar and corporate crimes refer to crimes that take place within a business or institution and include everything from Tax fraud to health and safety breaches. Corporate crime is extremely

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    essay examines the nature and organisation of corporate environmental crime. Part II explores the offenders of corporate environmental crime. Part III determines the risk factors for corporate offending. Finally, Part IV analyses environmental regulations. I. NATURE AND ORGANISATION Corporate environmental crime constitutes an important part of white-collar crime. The notion ‘white collar crime’ was introduced by Edwin Sutherland and refers to a crime ‘committed by a person of respectability and

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    of capitalism itself that produces crime however, in order to understand the causes of corporate crime, the neoliberal framework and its utilization must be examined. Neoliberalism accords the state not to intervene or regulate the market, and in effect produces inequality but most importantly crime. Criminal acts are committed by the elites that are following the core of the neoliberal doctrine which is maximizing profits while minimizing costs. Corporate crimes are committed by executives or executive

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    White-Collar Crime consists of occupational crime and corporate crime. Occupational crime refers to offences committed against legitimate institutions businesses or government by those with "respectable" social status. It includes the embezzlement of corporate funds, tax evasion, computer crime and expense-account fraud. It is not every day that we hear about white-collar crimes but these non-violent crimes are on the rise to the top. Federal Bureau of Investigation states that USA, for example recorded

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