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Which member of the Friends cast is believed to have died in his hot tub after having a heart attack.
Matthew Perry (aka Chandler Bing)
Name two financial crimes that can be classed as white-collar or corporate crimes.
Tax evasion
Bribery
Money laundering
Illegal accounting
They describe corporate crime in sanitised language.
Mass media
Which concept from Merton can we use to explain corporate crime?
Strain or anomie.
What's the name of the storm on its way to the UK this week?
Storm Ciaran.
Tombs calculated that there are more work-related deaths due to employers breaking the law than what in the USA?
Homicides (murders)
This government department shows a 'lack of political will' to tackle corporate crime.
Home Office
Which sociologist argues that some companies have a culture that justifies breaking the law.
Sutherland
Who has been accused of 'chaotic flip-flopping' in the covid enquiry?
Boris Johnson.
Crimes against consumers are things such as selling unfit goods. What example of a French company can we use here?
Poly implant (2011) were found to have been using breast implants containing dangerous chemicals.
Why are corporate crimes too complex for law enforcement agencies to tackle?
They lack the resources, expertise and staff to investigate.
Nelken argues that some white-collar and corporate crimes are de-labelled. What does this mean?
That some individuals and companies have the power to be able to avoid being labelled as criminal. They may be able to hire expensive lawyers and accountants to help them avoid prosecution.
Why is Bianca Williams annoyed with the Metropolitan police?
They have crowd funded £130,000 for two officers who were sacked for gross misconduct when they lied that they stopped and searched Bianca and her partner as they suspected they had drugs. They made this up.
What type of corporate crime includes air, land and water pollution. Give an example.
Crimes against the environment or environmental crime (green crime). Volkswagen admitted fitting cars with software to disguise the real emissions levels.
By calling corporate crimes civil offences instead of criminal ones what is effectively being done to corporate crime?
De-labelling.
Box (a Marxist) argues that capitalism has spread the ideology that corporate crime is less widespread or harmful than working class crime. What is the term he uses for this?
Mystification.
Why are the Met police unhappy about the Old Bailey decision to name the police officer who is accused of murdering Chris Kaba, a black man from Streatham, London?
Because it is argued that the police officer will be endangered.
What is state-corporate crime?
Wen a government colludes with a company to commit a crime in order to achieve their goals.
Suggest three reasons why corporate crimes are under-reported.
Victims don't realise they are victims
Victims may not regard what has happened as a real crime.
Victims may feel powerless against a big organisation.
The victim is society at large or the environment.
Sykes and Matza argue that individuals can deviate more easily if they can produce justifications for their actions. What is the term used for this?
Techniques of neutralisation.