Corportate Crime Vs Working Class Crime

Question 1

What are some examples of corporate crime that’s occurred.

Answer 1

• 2008 financial crisis
• Amazon accused of obstructing the knowledge of a worker’s right to paid leave.
• The Grenfell tower disaster
• The Bhopal chemical leak disaster, 25,000 people died and children were born with defects.
• Debatably the Iraq war, given that plans to divide the oil fields in the middle East amongst oil tycoons were found to date before the war.

Question 2

What is the issue with overemphasizing corporate crime?

Answer 2

Instances like the Chenobyl disaster show that government bureaucracy can be equally as guilty of negligence.

Question 3

Pearce made a point about laws serving a function in maintaining the current status quo.
What was it?

Answer 3

That the working classes are propagated that the laws are designed in everyone’s favour but this ignores how when played out in our society, this isn’t what happens.

This does however quell revolutionary tendency and protect the conveyabelt of profit.

Question 4

Why is it that prosecuting companies is so difficult?

Answer 4

Because as a collection of people with different legal protections it can be nearly impossible to find any one particular person to lay responsibility and collectively and fairly punish.

Companies also have access to the best legal resources money can buy and might also be so central to the economy and government of where they operate that those institutions are incentivised to cover up for them.

Question 5

Steve Tombs identified the types of crime within corporate structures
What were they?

Answer 5

Corporate crime.

Occupational crime.

Question 6

According to Steve ____ what are the types of corporate crime?

Answer 6

. Financial
. Crimes against consumers
. Crimes against employees
. Crimes against the environment
. Crimes that utilise the government’s legitimate use of violence