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Corporate Crime in Canada
Summary: Corporate crime is a big concern in Canada because of its effects on the society. Corporate crime is defined as harmful economic, human, and environmental acts committed by corporate officials in the pursuit of organizational goals, usually profit, and generally unpunished by the state.
Throughout the critical criminology in Canada, there are many different and similar approaches and aspects within corporate crime. Corporate crime is a big concern in Canada because of its effects on the society. Corporate crime is defined as harmful economic, human, and environmental acts committed by corporate officials in the pursuit of organizational goals, usually profit, and generally unpunished by the state. Corporations criminally are responsible for certain acts of omission, for actions constituting, negligence, and so on. Corporations are also responsible for offences committed by employees. In the articles by John Casey "Corporate Crime and The State: Canada in the 1980s" and Les Samuelson "Crime As A Social Problem: From Definition to Reality", they both argue in relation to the social problems that are caused by corporate crime and argue how the government handle these problems. In these two articles, they both argue that corporate crime is...
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