Assignment Task:
White Collar Crimes- Module 9 Discussion-
A great deal of white collar crimes can be classified as corporate, occupational, or government crime. Many forms of illegal government activity has connections with private enterprise. For example, environmental crimes committed in conjunction with with U.S. nuclear weapons production are a form of state-corporate crime because they are a collective product, a result of interactions between a government agency and private corporations.
State corporate crime occurs at levels of government from city, county, state, and federal governments. When cities, counties, and states hire contractors or construction companies to build/repair roads, bridges, build new infrastructure, the process is supposed to involve sealed (confidential) bidding. This process is supposed to result in the best provider who puts in the most cost effective bid being awarded the contract. This is not always the case. In far too many instances, mayors, city/county commissioners, and governors have been convicted of corruption charges stemming from taking bribes in exchange for awarding government contracts to the organization that provided the elected official with the bribe or incentive to provide the contract to a certain contractor/construction company. Most times, this does not involve the most reasonable bidder being awarded the job.
Robyn (2002) has described the exploitation of natural resources on Native American reservations as a form of state-corporate crime involving a state agency and private corporations, Exxon. The significant increase of oil and gas, which reached crisis status in 2008, has been interpreted as a cooperative governmental and corporate endeavor to foster oil dependence as opposed to focusing more upon energy alternatives. Furthermore, in 2006 criminal investigations were launched in 2006 into the Interior Department's Minerals Management Services' failure to collect billions of dollars of royalties from oil and gas companies extracting these fuels from government lands and costal waters. This is obvious evidence of conflict of interest involving government deals with contractors. Unfortunately, these types of state-corporate crime continue and go largely unnoticed by state and federal prosecutors.
Questions:
Q1. Of all the forms of state-corporate crimes discussed, which do you consider the most serious and why?
Q2. How should state-corporate crime be punished? Need Assignment Help?
Q3. Do you think crimes of globalization are likely to increase or diminish in the next century? What are some of the factors that would be likely to facilitate them, and what are some of the factors that would be likely to prevent them?