Petroleum resources and the plunder of the Niger Delta

Modern Slavery as the New Moral Asset for the Production and Reproduction of State-Corporate Harm

“…Since markets are the “organizing and regulating principle of the state,” and of “society” more broadly (Foucault, 2008, pp. 116–117), activities that benefit or advance the production of capital are seldom defined as criminal, even when they may be harmful (Ezeonu, 2018, p. 68). In fact, they are conceived as socially productive since they produce an overall benefit to society through the provision of goods and services and creation of work (Tombs, 2016, p. 88).…”

“…In fact, they are conceived as socially productive since they produce an overall benefit to society through the provision of goods and services and creation of work (Tombs, 2016, p. 88). Conversely, activities which threaten capital production, and by extension the global capitalist economy, are often criminalized (Ezeonu, 2018). Legislation criminalizing aspects of modern slavery has therefore typically focused on small-scale exploitation (organized crime), or protection from otherness (Ezeonu, 2018; Gadd & Broad, 2018), while disregarding large-scale exploitation (corporate crime).…”

“…Conversely, activities which threaten capital production, and by extension the global capitalist economy, are often criminalized (Ezeonu, 2018). Legislation criminalizing aspects of modern slavery has therefore typically focused on small-scale exploitation (organized crime), or protection from otherness (Ezeonu, 2018; Gadd & Broad, 2018), while disregarding large-scale exploitation (corporate crime). The criminalization of small-scale episodes of modern slavery was set in motion with the co-opting of the United Nations (UN) Trafficking Protocol (2000) under the frames of a “parent” instrument, the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000) (Goździak & Vogel 2020).…”

Moving Beyond Abstract Typologies? Overview of State and State-Corporate Crime

“…Other more current examples of state-corporate crime research emphasize the need for widening the focus on state-corporate crime to fully recognize the symbiotic significance (Whyte, 2014), describe the state-corporate cover-up of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill (Bradshaw, 2014) and the social harm of the Spanish crisis due to state-corporate crime (Bernal, Forero, & Rivera, 2014), and expose the National Security Administration’s surveillance and the cooperation of major telecommunications companies (Finley & Esposito, 2014). Others have written on the “Mirage of Pirates: State-Corporate Crime in West Africa’s Fisheries” (Standing, 2015), human rights violations of state corporations such as the practice of gas flaring in Nigeria (Izarali, 2016), the collusion and Bid rigging networks and state-corporate crime in the construction industry (Reeves-Latour & Morselli, 2017), the loss of coastal land due to state-corporate crime (Bisschop, Strobl, & Viollaz, 2018), the states’ aiding and taxation of transnational companies (Evertsson, 2017), market criminology–state-corporate crime in the petroleum extraction industry (Ezeonu, 2018) to the texting of Kramer and Michalowski’s integrated theoretical model of state-corporate crime (Patton, 2019).…”