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Corporate and Governmental Deviance: Problems of Organizational Behavior in Contemporary Society

Diane Rothbard Margolis, +2 more
- 01 May 1979 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 3, pp 402
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1979-05-01. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deviance (sociology) & Contemporary society.

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The Origins and Development of the Concept and Theory of State-Corporate Crime

Ronald C. Kramer, +2 more
- 01 Apr 2002 - 
TL;DR: State-corporate crime is defined as criminal acts that occur when one or more institutions of political governance pursue a goal in direct cooperation with other institutions of economic production and distribution as discussed by the authors.
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Three models of organizational corruption in agencies of social control

Lawrence W. Sherman
- 01 Apr 1980 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the processes by which agencies of social control become organizationally corrupt, as one instance of the more general social problem of organizations adopting deviant goals, and present three models of how it may develop: (1) the co-optation by social control agencies of the subjects of control; (2) the capture of social Control agencies by external exploiters of the "power to regulate" as a marketable commodity; and (3) the domination of the agency by internal exploiter of the marketability of regulatory authority.
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Crime, criminology and human rights: Towards an understanding of state criminality

Gregg Barak
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the potential of critical criminology to deal with state criminality via investigation of such issues as state interventions, overlapping activities of criminal versus non-criminal organizations and the distinction between individual and state actors.
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The state and white-collar crime: Saving the savings and loans

Kitty Calavita, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1994 - 
TL;DR: Les AA. empruntent des elements de la theorie de l'Etat pour expliciter cette fracture as discussed by the authors, which semble dans un premier temps contradictoire par rapport a la relative tolerance du gouvernement envers ce genre de delit tel qu'il en est fait reference dans d'autres etudes, les AA.
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Criminology and the sociology of organizations

Diane Vaughan
- 01 Mar 2002 - 
TL;DR: The sociology of organizations offers conceptual tools that can be used by criminologists as discussed by the authors, which can usefully be applied to substantive criminological problems, such as family violence and corporate crime.