By Steven Box
ISBN-10: 020332353X
ISBN-13: 9780203323533
ISBN-10: 041504572X
ISBN-13: 9780415045728
One of many classics of radical criminology - a compelling account of ways strength and powerlessness function in the legal justice procedure.
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Organizations per se do not plan, think, or act; there are human agents eagerly willing to accomplish these in its good name. Consequently, whilst corporate crime cannot be understood without grasping the fact that it stems from contradictions between a corporation’s goal(s) and its environment, that understanding remains one-sided if individuals are left out of the analysis. Traditionally, individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime, but unfortunately for criminology, it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations.
Sadly it was a legacy scorned by its putative beneficiaries. With the exception of some work by disciples of Sutherland (Clinard 1952; Cressey 1953; Hartung 1950), the study of corporate crime remained a deserted and neglected area for nearly two decades. And then, following Ralph Nader’s (1965) exposure of the car industry’s products as being ‘Unsafe At Any Speed’, the President’s Task Force Report on crime (1967), and Watergate’s revelation of massive corporate funds being paid illegally to curry political favours and destabilize South American democratic governments, there was a renewed interest in crimes committed in the good name of major corporations.
Consequently, whilst corporate crime cannot be understood without grasping the fact that it stems from contradictions between a corporation’s goal(s) and its environment, that understanding remains one-sided if individuals are left out of the analysis. Traditionally, individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime, but unfortunately for criminology, it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations. Consequently, the unity between organizational demands and officials’ behaviour was fractured and until this was healed, understanding corporate crime remained crippled.