RT Article
T1 Corporate criminal careers: thinking about organizational offending
JF Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
VO 13
SP 29
OP 45
A1 Hunter, Ben 1978-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866383469
AB This article argues for the necessity of considering corporate crime through a criminal career framework. It begins by highlighting that the problems of corporate crime work to date. These relate to whether analysis should be focused on individuals or organizations, and the implication inherent to many explanations for corporate crime that different aspects of corporate offending share a single cause. This has led to seemingly contradictory conclusions about corporate crime being drawn, hampering attempts to develop explanations for its occurrence. A response to these issues involves a stronger focus on corporate offenders as recidivists and, consequently, a study of their offending over time. It is suggested that the criminal career approach is the best way to achieve this, as it allows for a conceptual sensitivity towards understanding corporate crime, pointing at how different elements of the corporate criminal career can be studied in isolation and focusing on offending over time. This is a necessary starting point for developing theories of corporate criminality. The article concludes by suggesting some ways a corporate criminal career approach might be developed.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 39-45
K1 corporate crime
K1 Criminal Career
K1 onset
K1 Desistance
K1 offending frequency