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... Abuse of power by corporate & governmental elites”
THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
I have been assigned as a member of the federal commission to come up with a realistic plan to reduce the level of WHITE COLLAR CRIME/CORPORATE CRIME across Canada. ... It can also include large corporations and their efforts to control the market place and earn huge profits through unlawful bidding, unfair advertising, monopolistic practices, or other illegal means.
The abuse of corporate power and its significance was disappearing as both a concept and law during the 1980s by the corporate counter revolution. ... As corporate power in all spheres of socials life has increased, virtually all of the anti-social, acquisitive, profit-generating acts of business have been redefined, normalized and “de-juridified”. ... However, law in any society reflects the values, interests and demands of those who hold power. The intent of criminal law has been to maintain economic and social power. ... Moreover, increased the control or use of SEC (Securities and exchange commissions), over corporations’ activities, that was downsized during the 1980s and allocate power from corporations to the state. ... The state must, as it does to those at the bottom, criminalize those at the top, in order to stop the abuse of power by these individuals at the top, we must get tougher on them and punish harder. ...
Moreover, if we look at an analysis of 477 corporations it was that “only one in 10 serious and one in 20 moderate violations resulted in sanctions. ... But it does not take into consideration such issues as power, class and gender and how they interact to play a role for the variation in the crime rate. We need to pay more attention to the social structure of society and the distribution of power and wealth and the role that such structure play to contribute to the inequality of the law when treating common criminals and white collar criminals. ... He integrated his beliefs about power, society, and criminality into a theory he referred to as the social reality of crime. According to Quinney, criminal definitions (law) represent the interests of those who hold power in society in this case large corporations and governmental elites. Where conflict exits between social groups, for example, the wealthy (corporations) and the poor (the public), those who hold the power (corporations) will create laws (decriminalized their illegal activities) to benefit themselves and hold rivals in check (by increasing control over them). ... And it might be helpful in the development of policies for controlling/avoiding this type of criminal activity to happen, suggesting that there might be a need to regulate and monitor corporations internal activities and the way they deal with their employees.
Approximate Word count = 3108
Approximate Pages = 12.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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