Corporate and white collar crime

Fiona Haines

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_16

Corporate and white collar crime

Fiona Haines^*

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Enormous financial, social, and environmental harm is wrought by business activities that merit both the label white collar crime and strict punishment. Through analysis of Australian cases, this chapter shows how the harms that arise do so within a promise of broader benefits to both government and the community at large. Despite significant injustice in the distribution of benefits, they allow business to exert significant leverage over national governments and law, and to rationalise their capacity to generate profits on the global stage. Hence, social and political-not just legal-responses are needed to reduce the problem.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice
Publisher	Springer International Publishing Switzerland
Pages	237-249
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319557472
ISBN (Print)	9783319557465
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_16
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

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