Corporate Criminals

In criminology, corporate crime refers to crimes committed either by a corporation (i.e., a business entity having a separate legal personality from the natural persons that manage its activities), or by individuals that may be identified with a corporation or other business entity (see vicarious liability and corporate liability). Note that some forms of corporate corruption may not actually be criminal if they are not specifically illegal under a given system of laws. For example, some jurisdictions allow insider trading. Corporate crime overlaps with: white-collar crime, because the majority of individuals who may act as or represent the interests of the corporation are employees or professionals of a higher social class; organized crime, because criminals can set up corporations either for the purposes of crime or as vehicles for laundering the proceeds of crime. Organized crime has become a branch of big business and is simply the illegal sector of capital. It has been estimated that, by the middle of the 1990s, the "gross criminal product" of organized crime made it the twentieth richest organization in the world—richer than 150 sovereign states (Castells 1998: 169). The worlds gross criminal product has been estimated at 20 percent of world trade. (de Brie 2000); and state-corporate crime because, in many contexts, the opportunity to commit crime emerges from the relationship between the corporation and the state. RoccProduction. Corporate crime has become politically sensitive in some countries. In the United Kingdom, for example, following a number of fatal disasters on the rail network and at sea, the term is commonly used in reference to corporate manslaughter and to involve a more general discussion about the technological hazards posed by business enterprises (see Wells: 2001). Similar incidents of corporate crime, such as the 1985 Union Carbide accident in Bhopal, India (Pearce & Tombs: 1993) and the behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry (Braithwaite: 1984).

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[sfkdatforajk]

That's disgusting.

Sharia law should be implimented upon those corporate pigs. STONE THEM!

[Nenadnash]

Only communism can deal with this crap..

[wedgewood578]

see my spoofs on bp last sumer like this one

[shroomduke]

Prosicute Corporate Tax Evaders, Vote out Corporate sycophants, Regulate Regulate Regulate, Fine, Jail, and give the Corporate Death Penalty for Corporate Criminals.