Crimes of the Powerful by https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn Revision en-us 2018-10-10 02:24:16 UTC 2025-11-24 12:50:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Week 1 - Introduction phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291056795 Key takeaways: 
Themes relating to broader topics:
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Readings:]]> 2018-10-10 02:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291057146 Week 11 - Controlling White Collar Crime phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291057271 Key takeaways: 
  • Previous weeks have been focussed on why white-collar crime occurs, this week is focussed on how to regulate and/or prevent white-collar crime
  • There are many difficulties that come with regulation
  • "Smart-regulation" and "meta-regulation"
    • Meta: "involves government ‘regulating at a distance’ by risk managing the risk management of individual enterprises " (Gunningham, 2011).
    • Smart:  "government should harness second and third parties (both commercial and non commercial) as surrogate regulators, thereby achieving not only better policy outcomes at less cost but also freeing up scarce regulatory resources, which can be redeployed in circumstances where only direct government intervention is available " (Gunningham, 2011)
Themes relating to broader topics:
  • ambiguity of white collar criminal law (Week 1 - Haines, 2017)
  • embeddedness of harms into regular business activity (Week 1 - Haines, 2017)

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  •  Harm embedded in benefits of business occurrences
  • Ambiguity of definition of harm 
  • Regulator doesn't have jurisdiction to regulate ideal target (organisation or individual), also may not have access to best method to regulation (e.g. license revocation not possible if there is licences are not required in that industry)
  • Further jurisdictional issues (across countries etc)
  • Power of the the targets (theme of whole subject - those with power find it easier to avoid regulation)
  • Some regulators aim to prevent white-collar crime; others aim to use penalties to punish white-collar crime
    • ]]>     2018-10-10 02:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291058232     Week 1 - Corporations/ Introduction nburns5 https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291059051
  • Corporations are a considered a person in their own right.

    • by law required to place interests of shareholders above all else - even at the expense of human life

    • outsource jobs in favour of self preservation

    • corporate crime vs corporate harm -> may not be criminal but still harmful
    Readings:


    ]]>     2018-10-10 02:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291059051     phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291059785 2018-10-10 02:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291059785 Week 5 - Complex Financial Fraud phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291096410 2018-10-10 07:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/291096410 Embeddedness and Ambiguity phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293667260
  • Embeddedness of harm and benefits in capitalist system in normal business activities
  • Ambiguity: definitions of crime/law/legal system/definition of white collar crime and harm
  • Problem of jurisdiction over TNCs because of globalisation/ globalised production



    • ]]>     2018-10-17 02:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293667260     Typologist vs. Sociologist phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293667759 Typologist: how to deal with ambiguity, define the types of white collar crime. Develop separate typologies to reduce ambiguity
    Sociologist: structural interpretation of the problem  (vs. Agency) 

    ]]>     2018-10-17 02:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293667759     Regulatory Authority of Business phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293667918
  • State has regulatory authority
  • How can business have it?
    • Self regulation
    • not through formal or legitimate ways

    • ]]>     2018-10-17 02:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293667918     Conflict of interest: Regulator and Regulatee bella_carducci https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293669578 the state
    -       ensure employment
    -       ensure profit
    however, it must
    -       ensure no harm has occurred to population and community

    examples
    auditors in financial fraud
    > affiliated with busines
    > Their role: check the accounts
    > They're an independent regulator
    > Hired by business – tend to hide accounts as they are a business entity too 
    > business interest prioritised over regulatory role – tied with the organisation or firms they are auditing 
     
    ]]>     2018-10-17 02:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293669578     Professional Misconduct phoebe_hutson https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293669908
  • Nature of the knowledge
  • Trust in the expert
  • Trust and discretion is required for the medical profession, this also makes it particularly vulnerable to exploitation
  • Medical profession is self-regulation
    • Tend to hide wrongdoing of peers so as to protect the profession

    • ]]>     2018-10-17 02:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293669908     Smart Regulation and Meta Regulation bella_carducci https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293670589 Smart Regulation:
    • government should harness second and third parties (both commercial and non com- mercial) as surrogate regulators, thereby achieving not only better policy outcomes at less cost but also freeing up scarce regulatory resources, which can be redeployed in circumstances where only direct government intervention is available (Gunningham 2011, p. 199-200). 
    • regulation and enforcement should be designed using a number of different instruments implemented by a number of parties. (Gunningham 2011, p. 200).

    Meta-Regulation:
    - The government regulating at a distance (Gunningham 2011, p. 200)
    - Minimises the hands on role of the state
    - Encourages enterprises to put in place their own internal controls and management (via systems, plans and risk management more generally). (Gunningham 2011, p. 200).
    ]]>     2018-10-17 02:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293670589     QUESTION 1 KEYPOINTS : michelletumewu https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293673059 Week Ten (1 October – 5 October, 2018):

    Topic: Crime and the Environment

    Required Reading: 

    Elliott, L. 2012. “Fighting Transnational Environmental Crime.” Journal of International Affairs, 66:1: 87-104.

    Recommended Reading:

    Bisschop, L. 2012. “Is it all going to waste? Illegal transports of e-waste in a European trade hub.” Crime, Law and Social Change, 58:3: 221-249.

    Buscher, B., & Fletcher, R. (2018). “Under Pressure: Conceptualising Political Ecologies of Green Wars”. Conservation and Society, 16:2:105-113. https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_18_1



    Week Six (27 August – 31 August, 2018): 

    Topic: Industrial Disasters

    Required Reading: 

    Woolfson, C. (2012). "Preventable Disasters in the Offshore Oil Industry: From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon."  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy 22(4): 497-524.

    Recommended Reading:

    Vaughan, D. (1999). "The dark side of organizations: Mistake, misconduct, and disaster." Annual Review of Sociology 25: 271-305.

    Perrow, C. (2008). "Disasters Evermore? Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters." Social Research 75(3): 733-752.

    ]]>     2018-10-17 03:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/293673059     Week 4 - Globalisation and Crimes of the Powerful blairliew https://padlet.com/phoebe_hutson/6pikhav35fcn/wish/295064195 Useful readings on the role of NGOs:

    Connor, T & Haines, F 2013, ‘Networked regulation as a solution to human rights abuse in global supply chains? The case of trade union rights violations by Indonesian sports shoe manufacturers’, Theoretical Criminology, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 197-214.

    Kirsch, S 2014, ‘Introduction’, Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and their Critics, University of California Press, U.S.A, pp. 1-14.



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