RT Article
T1 Suite violence: why managers muder and corporations kill
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 33
IS 3
SP 243
OP 280
A1 Punch, Maurice 1941-
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883016223
AB This paper examines the area of organizational deviance leading to avoidable death, injury and harm. Corporate activity creates a large number of victims and yet this area is neglected in the literature. Evidence indicates that business kills, maims and poisons; that we are dealing with organizational deviance; but that iy is difficult, legally and organizationally, to pin down precisely the motives and behhaviour of managers in suchh cases. Significant corporate violence is rooted in a multiplicity of situational factors, the embeddness of socio-economic activity and post-hoc rationalizations. The paper highlights one specific strand in business deviance; how structure and culture shape the managerial mind and influence behaviour in ways that foster deviance and cause harm. A range of social-psychological processes are examined that open opportunities, and rationalizations, for rule-breaking. Corporations can create and environment that leads to risk-taking, and even recklessness, resulting in high casualties and severe harm. Companies then get away with ``murder'' because the law and the courts are not geared to organizational deviance and corporate violence. The organization causes the deviance and then forms the legal and institutional defence against facing up to the full consequences of the deaths, injuries and suffering among victims.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-280
K1 Corporate Activity
K1 Full Consequence
K1 Influence Behaviour
K1 International Relation
K1 Situational Factor
DO 10.1023/A:1008306819319