RT Article
T1 The dynamics of food fraud: the interactions between criminal opportunity and market (dys)functionality in legitimate business
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 17
IS 5
SP 605
OP 623
A1 Lord, Nicholas
A1 Flores Elizondo, Cecilia Juliana
A1 Spencer, Jon
A2 Flores Elizondo, Cecilia Juliana
A2 Spencer, Jon
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741075238
AB This article conceptualizes ‘food fraud’ by shifting analytical focus away from popular/policy conceptions foregrounding the centrality of organized crime towards understanding the factors that shape the organization of food frauds. We argue that food fraud, rather than being an ‘exogenous’ phenomenon perpetrated by externally organized (transnational) ‘criminal enterprise’, is better understood as an ‘endogenous’ phenomenon within the food system where legitimate occupational actors and organizations are in some way necessarily involved. Criminal opportunities arise under conducive conditions as part of legitimate actors’ routine behaviours. Our contention is that the common definition of food fraud is too prescriptive and fails to allow space to understand the role of different actors and their motivations. We analyse a case study in soft drinks, presenting the necessary role of legitimate, occupational actors within/between legitimate organizational settings and markets, and demonstrate how criminal behaviours can be concealed and disguised within ‘ready-made’ market and business structures.
K1 Food fraud
K1 Occupational crime
K1 Organization of crime
K1 Organizational crime
K1 Organized crime
K1 White-collar crime
DO 10.1177/1748895816684539