A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Re-imagining crime prevention: Controlling corporate crime?




AuthorsAlvesalo Anne, Tombs Steve, Virta Erja, Whyte Dave

PublisherSPRINGER

Publication year2006

JournalCrime, Law and Social Change

Journal acronymCRIME LAW SOCIAL CH

Volume45

Issue1

First page 1

Last page25

Number of pages25

ISSN0925-4994

eISSN1573-0751

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-005-9004-2


Abstract

While the discourses and practices of crime prevention are of increasing salience, few criminologists have sought the inclusion of corporate illegalities on such agendas. Relatedly, within criminology, there has been a diminished tendency to think in idealistic, utopian and emancipatory terms. This paper is one small attempt to think in precisely such terms.(1) But it is not an exercise in pure imagination. In particular, the papermakes extended reference to Finland, where recent experience suggests that corporate crime prevention may be feasible, under certain conditions, albeit subject to certain limitations. Thus we consider both the desirability and the feasibility of corporate crime prevention intruding upon the generally narrowly constructed terrain of 'crime prevention'. We begin with a critique of some of the key aspects of crime prevention discourses-at both theoretical and practical levels-with a particular emphasis upon the extent to which these are both more appropriately and usefully applied to corporate crime prevention, before going on to discuss corporate crime prevention 'in action', through a focus upon recent developments in Finland. In a concluding section, we consider various aspects of both the desirability and feasibility of corporate crime prevention.



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