By Andrew Cook
ISBN-10: 0752499815
ISBN-13: 9780752499819
The nice educate theft of 1963 is likely one of the so much notorious crimes in British historical past.
The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million at the present time) hasn't ever been recovered, and there has now not been a unmarried yr considering the fact that 1963 while one point of the crime or its contributors has now not been featured within the media.
Despite the wealth and volume of this insurance, a bunch of questions have remained unanswered: Who was once in the back of the theft? was once it an within activity? And who bought away with the crime of the century? Fifty years of selective falsehood and delusion has obscured the truth of the tale at the back of the theft.
The undeniable fact that a number of the unique research and prosecution documents on these concerned and speculated to were concerned have been closed, in lots of circumstances till 2045, has simply served to muddy the waters nonetheless extra.
Now, via Freedom of knowledge requests and the specific beginning of lots of those documents, Andrew prepare dinner unearths a brand new photograph of the crime and its research that, ultimately, offers solutions to a lot of those questions.
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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.