Corporate crime
Definition
Illegal acts committed by or on behalf of a corporate organisation for the organisation's benefit. Distinct from occupational crime because the wrongdoing is a product of organisational decision-making, not individual self-interest. Examples include price-fixing cartels, systematic environmental violations, and product safety fraud.
Related terms
- Cybercrime
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- A theoretical framework that analyses organised crime as a rational business enterprise responding to market conditions. Associated with criminologist Dwight Smith, who...
- Neutralisation techniques
- The vocabulary of justifications identified by Sykes and Matza (1957) by which offenders deny the wrongfulness of their acts: denial of injury,...
- Organised crime
- A structured group of three or more persons that operates continuously, with the aim of committing serious offences for material benefit, and...
- White-collar crime
- Crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation (Sutherland, 1939). The category covers...
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- Organised, White-Collar, Corporate, and CybercrimeIllegal acts committed by or on behalf of a corporate organisation for the organisation's benefit. Distinct from occupational crime because the wrongdoing is a...