Sociology Corporate Crime

Corporate Crime
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|'Now as through this world I ramble, |
|I see lots of funny men, |
|Some rob you with a six gun,|
|And some with a fountain pen.' |
|(Woody Guthrie, 'Pretty Boy Floyd') |
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|'The real criminals in this society are not all the people who populate the prisons across the state, but those people who have |
|stolen the wealth of the world from the people.' |
|(Angela Davis)|
|'What can be done to reduce significantly the volume of killing, maiming and economic deprivation caused by corporate crime? One|
|brief terse answer is **** all!' |
|(Box, 'Power, Crime and Mystification')|
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|Marxist approaches to Law |
|For Marxists, the state, which makes the law, represents (directly or indirectly) the interests of the ruling class. Law is a|
|coercive instrument of the state, used to maintain the existing social order. |
|While some laws protect us all they do not protect us all equally. |
|'Criminal laws against murder, rape, robbery and assault do protect us all but they do not protect the less powerful from being ||killed, sexually exploited, deprived of their property, or physically and psychologically damaged through the greed, apathy, |
|negligence, indifference and the unaccountability of the relatively more powerful.' |
|(Thio, 1978) ||Corporate crime is a real killer: |
|Neglect of safety equipment - Piper Alpha, Herald of Free Enterprise. |
|Inadequate testing - Ford Pinto, Low dose contraceptive pills. ||Avoidable industrial disease/accidents. |
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|Corporate crime injures |
|1.Thalidomide - 8000 - Chemie Grunenthal falsified test data and concealed the truth about side effects. |
|2. Opren? |
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|Corporate...