The Several Areas White Collar Crime Covers

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The Several Areas White Collar Crime Covers

• Occupational Theft
• Occupational Fraud
• Corporate Crime
• Corporate Violence
• Transnational Corporate Crime

By Nicole Wolf, Alex DeWitt, and Philip Kappell
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Transnational Corporate Crime

• Transnational corporations are large corporations
  that maintain business operations in more than
  one country
• Bribery
• Dumping
• Dangerous Working Conditions

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Transnational Corporate Crime

• Examples
• Dalkon Shields
• DDT
• Bechtel Group
• Mali Gold
• Nike Sweatshops
• Solutions
• Greater public scrutiny
• Tougher trade policies
• Fines
• Unified resistance
• Work strikes

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Corporate Violence

• Violent acts made by corporations against
  workers, consumers, or the public
• Hazardous working conditions
• Insurance ratings costs
• Suppress negative information from workers and
  public
• Pollution / wrongful dumping of hazardous wastes

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Corporate Violence

• Examples
• McWane Inc.
• Asbestos producers
• Textile Industry
• Ford Pinto
• American Tobacco Industry
• Royal Caribbean cruise line
• Colonial Pipeline Co.

• Solutions
• State courts
• Corporate convictions
• EPA
• Clean Air Act
• More Govt. agencies to check corporations

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Bhopal, India and its Disastrous Gas Leak