corporate crime Flashcards

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Babiak and Hare
perosnality

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  • 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.
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Edwin Sutherland

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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
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Skyes and Matza

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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

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Snider

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  • 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/.
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Rationl Actor theory

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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

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