State- Corporate Crime

There are 2 types of State- Corporate Crime

1. State-Initiated Crime 2. State- Facilitated Crime

The re-enforcing interactions are

1. policies and or practices in pursuit of goals of one or more institutions of political governance 2. policies or practices of goals of one or more institutions of economic production and distribution

Ronald Kramer & Raymond Michalowski

Introduced the concept of state corporate crime

Classic Cases of State-Initiated

Space shuttle Challenger explosion, nuclear weapons production

State- Corporate Crime

illegal or socially injurious actions that result from a mutually re-enforcing interaction from a state or state agency and corporation joining in some way to cause harm and victimization

Classic cases of state-facilitated

imperial food products fire- owner locked fire escape doors when he found out employee where using the doors when they would steal products.

State-facilitated Crime

occurs when " governmental regulatory institutions fail to restrain deviant business and government because they adhere to shared goals whose attainment would be hampered by aggressive regulations

State-Initiated Crime

occurs when corporations engage in organizational deviance at the direction of or with the tacit approval of the government