Market Criminology

Ezeonu, Ifeanyi

doi:10.1002/9781118775004.ch25

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“…Transnational corporations are key agents in creating and maintaining criminogenic relationships between the Global North and South. Notably, scholars from the Global South and Latin American ‐particularly those working at the interception of Marxist international political economy and theories of development‐have emphasized the need to understand and study the implication of transnational corporations in harming communities in the Global South (Böhm, 2018; Ezeonu, 2018; Schoultz & Flyghed, 2016). As shown below, transnational corporate crimes feature prominently in the development of critical criminology in Latin America and have become an important link between this tradition and crimes of the powerful.…”

Section: Defining Crimes Of the Powerful: Capital Power And Symbiotic...mentioning

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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Atiles

2023

Sociology Compass

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The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state‐mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes. Going beyond state‐centric definitions of crime and deviance, this scholarship emphasizes studying power and the harmful and criminogenic operations of the neoliberal‐capitalism. However, this scholarship has overlooked the systemic examination of these crimes in the Global South, Latin America and the Caribbean, and their impact on racialized, gendered, and other marginalized communities. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by providing an overview of the current developments in the scholarship on crimes of the powerful and proposing some future research areas for Latin America and the Caribbean. Thus, the article aims to demonstrate that the Latin American and Caribbean experiences with crimes of the powerful can expand our understanding of the social harms generated by powerful organizations and actors and magnify the analytical and methodological reach of this critical scholarship.

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Section: Defining Crimes Of the Powerful: Capital Power And Symbiotic...mentioning

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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Atiles

2023

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“…The 2012 sale took a surprising turn when an investigative journalist in a Norwegian daily newspaper (Egeberg, 2014, 2015) revealed that the vessels were serving, 2 years later, in the private flotilla of a former Nigerian rebel (Evans, 2017; Tufts, 2018). Nigeria is rich on oil resources, where the rebels fight for control (Ezeonu, 2020; PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC], 2015; Reporter, 2013). The news about the six demilitarized missile torpedo boats and one naval support vessel triggered both an internal fraud examination by PwC (2014, 2015) for the Ministry of Defense in Norway and a police investigation by Økokrim (Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime).…”

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Filling the Gap in White-Collar Crime Detection Between Government and Governance: The Role of Investigative Journalists and Fraud Examiners

Gottschalk

2020

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime

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This article suggests that investigative journalists in the media and fraud examiners in private investigations have the potential of filling some of the detection gap. Based on the theory of crime signal detection, this article suggests that investigative journalists are in the position of detecting white-collar crime scandals as they rely on tips and whistleblowing. Empirical evidence from Norway documents that the media disclose a significant fraction of crime stories that later result in prosecution and conviction of white-collar offenders. Empirical evidence from Norway does not document any contribution from fraud examiners in private policing of economic crime, as they typically conclude with misconduct, but no crime, often to the satisfaction of their clients.

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Market Criminology

Cited by 2 publications

References 29 publications

Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda

Filling the Gap in White-Collar Crime Detection Between Government and Governance: The Role of Investigative Journalists and Fraud Examiners

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