RT Article
T1 From corporate corruption to Rentiership: extending Box’s Power, Crime and Mystification
JF Demystifying power, crime and social harm
SP 81
OP 102
A1 Bittle, Steven
A2 Frauley, Jon 1972-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1916586430
AB This chapter explores Box’s arguments about law and the mystification of crime through a critical examination of recent efforts across the public and private sectors that takes corporate corruption as problematic and in need of elimination. In addition to examining how the “anti-corruption” movement has effectively constrained what constitutes corruption, therein glossing over the predatory instincts of global capitalism, we consider how these measures (re)produce as legitimate and natural a parasitic and anti-democratic form of wealth extraction known as rentiership. In so doing, we extend and update Box’s ideas by noting an affinity with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social action. Our goal is to provide a theoretical grounding for understanding and explaining corruption as a crime of the powerful and, importantly, avoid naïve and untenable explanations based on self-interest and rational choice theory.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 99-102
SN 9783031462122
K1 Wirtschaftskriminalität
K1 Korruption
K1 Rentier-Ökonomie
K1 Großbritannien