RT Article
T1 In-your-face Watergate: neutralizing government lawbreaking and the war against white-collar crime
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 75
IS 3
SP 201
OP 219
A1 Pontell, Henry N. 1950-
A2 Tillman, Robert H. 1951-
A2 Ghazi-Tehrani, Adam Kavon
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1826644652
AB Ample official evidence exists that the Trump administration was the most corrupt in modern American history. Donald Trump’s overall pattern of behavior not only resembled, but amplified that of major white-collar criminals. This paper has two main foci. First, it argues that government criminality and corruption were facilitated by rationales and excuses that denied effective social condemnation of such acts. Second, it considers how these defenses were weaponized by the Trump administration as part of a much larger and more deliberate "war on white-collar crime" more generally. As a result, enormous efforts are necessary to restore and strengthen regulatory and enforcement regimes, and transcend deepened political cleavages on such matters. Through a new hybrid neutralization technique, normalization of condemning the condemners, Trump exacerbated existing political differences and influenced supporters to at once ignore government crime and corruption, and accept new moral narratives that flew in the face of substantial evidence of criminality.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 215-219
K1 Corruption
K1 Neutralization
K1 Rule of law
K1 white-collar crime
DO 10.1007/s10611-021-09954-1