CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 58: Price Gouging, Industrial Espionage, Legal Fiction
Document Summary
Corporate crimes types, examples (435-442): in table in slides. Corporate crime corporations causing harm against the people. Easier to come into the system because of the individual level of responsibility. Even though a corporation is accused as a crime it is seen as an individual. Difficult to prosecute/lay charges against because decisions are made by multiple people in the company to ensure job security/company gain. A dishonest act that deprives or risks depriving another person of something: most typical case of wcc. Prosecution is rare even though the damage is greater: few companies are targeted and then punished. Businesses as targets: smaller or medium sized businesses are targeted more because they are easier to punish. Civil and administrative law instead of criminal law. Green-collar crime: define it and forms of it . Crimes against workers and public: ex. The analysis of environmental harms from a criminological perspective. Concerned with bringing the tools of criminology to the study of environmental issues.
