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Slapper & Tombs (1999) suggest that there are 6 main types of Corporate Crime: 1) Paperwork & Non. Compliance: > Having incorrect/ no permits or licences and/or failing to comply with legal regulations (often health & safety regulations ) > E. g. Herald of Free Enterprise disaster 1989: Capsized & a 197 people died as rules governing the closer of bow doors was neglected. 2) Labour Law Violations Crimes against employees : > Includes crimes such as failing to pay legally required minimum wages, ignoring legal working hour restrictions or failing to provide correct safety equipment for workers. > E. g. GAP using child labour in sweat shops

3) Unfair Trade Practices: Crime against customers > Includes crimes such as false advertising, pricefixing and illegally obtaining information on rival businesses. > E. g. UK Supermarkets were fined £ 116 Million in 2007 for fixing the price of milk and cheese, costing shoppers £ 270 Million more than they should have been paying. > These are offences such as misrepresentation, incorrect labelling & false advertising. They also include the production of dangerous & unsafe articles, counterfeiting & failing to recall faulty goods.

4) Financial Offences: > Includes crimes such as tax evasion and concealment of losses & debts. > E. g. In 2001 Enron hid debts of around $50 Billion – the company collapsed and many people lost their jobs and investments. 5) Environmental ‘Green’ Crime: > E. g. Companies knowingly damaging the environment and breaking laws on levels of pollution released into the environment. E. g. VW diesel emissions which were 40 times above the US legal limit 6) State corporate crime: When the government and businesses co operate to pursue their goals and crime is committed in the course of this co operation e. g. the involvement in the torture of prisoners in Iraq by private security firms contacted by the US government

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Corporate Crime & Official Statistics Corporate Crimes are often missing from Official Statistics or at the most the yare under-represented when compared to ‘typical’ workingclass low-level street crimes such as burglary, knife crime, vandalism and vehicle crime. > How might this be explained? (Draw on your knowledge on theories of crime). Powerful People R/C Contro l the Media Hard to Detect Police Priorities Often not dealt with by the CJS Invisible crime