corporate crime Flashcards
Babiak and Hare
perosnality
- suggested that commercial businesses provide a setting in which people with psychopathic tendencies can flourish
- psychopaths/ people with anti - social personality disorder are goal driven tend to act recklessly and lack moral conscience.
Edwin Sutherland
Differential association theory: crime as a product of learning and the nature range and intensity of the association we have with others
- offending suggests that through interactions with others individuals learn the values a, techniques and motivation for criminal behaviour
Skyes and Matza
tecchniques of neutralisation’
Making it seem that such categories are legitimate
They propsed 5 major types of neutralisation techniques. 1 denial of responsibility 2 denial of injury 3 denial of the victim 4 condemati of the condemers 5 and appeal to higher
Snider
- Marxists argue that on all 3 counts the scale is balanced in favour of corporate illegality
- non- reinforcement is the most frequent found characteristic. where enforcement is pursued, it tends to focus on the smallest and weakest organisation and the punishments following regulatory activity are typically light/.
Rationl Actor theory
If crime is the result if rationa;l action there are 3 consideration that they are likley to consider
1 the likehood of beng caught
2 the likehood of being prosecuted if caught
3 the severity of any resulting punishments