SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corporate Crime, Profit Motive, Total Institution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

Suite violence: why managers murder and corporations kill. Business crime and corporate deviance have been neglected by social scientists. In criminology this is suprising because managers and corporations commit far more violence than any serial killer or criminal organization. The offenders are usually well educated, and socially acceptable citizens who distance themselves from the notion of criminal behavior and criminal identity. In entering the corporate world, the first assumption is that the extent of corporate violence is well established and widely documented. Union carbide factory in bhopal, india- collisions leading to the severely injured passengers. Pinto case ford was taken to court for reckless homicide it was the first time that a major. American corporation would go to trial for murder. Organizations cannot take decisions apart from the members who comprise them but organizations can be held criminally responsible as an institutional entity and not just for vicarious liability in relation to employees.