Unfortunately, a corporation can be charged and convicted of any number of crimes. If the employees or officers within a corporation violate the law on behalf of the corporation and within the scope of their employment, the corporate entity would be open to criminal charges. Corporations can be convicted of criminal wrongdoing in the same manner individuals are charged and convicted. In addition, individuals within the corporation can be charged as well. Commonly, when a corporation is charged, many of the top officers will be charged along with the corporation as an entity.…
The catastrophe at Rana Plaza claimed so many lives of workers, which were not guilty wherein. A lot of different factors influenced such outcome. Summarizing results, we must say that producers, government and even consumers were guilty in some way in the accident, and each of them played their role there. Producers must bear responsibility because of their guilty in the lowest salaries of their workers, poor working conditions, and not following the fire safety rules; in addition, they subject their workers to a danger due to that they forced them to work knowing the building was not safe. Consumers of more developed countries must also bear responsibility as they do not will to pay more money for clothes and do not think that their actions…
Corporations, by legal charter, are not a single entity and do not have a central owner; however, this does not keep corporations from being liable for criminal actions or criminal liability. Corporate criminal liability in law determines to what extent a corporation, basically a fictitious entity, can be held liable for acts and omissions of actual people that the corporation employs. In 1909, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a corporation “could be held criminally liable for the acts, omissions, or failures of an agent acting within the scope of his employment” (Carrasco & Dupee, 1999). Corporations themselves cannot do actions and so criminal liability falls to the employees of the corporation and two elements comprise criminal violations by corporate employees; intent and the guilty act. Carrasco and Dupee (1999), state, “For a corporation to be liable, the employee committing the illicit act must be acting within the scope of her employment”. This requirement is generally met if the employee has actual or apparent authority to engage in the particular act in question and the corporation can give either direct authority or authority through perceived authority (Carrasco & Dupee, 1999). Under federal law, a corporation is criminally responsible for the actions of any of its employees taken within the scope of their employment for the benefit of the corporation. It makes no difference whether the employees’ conduct violates corporate policy or contravenes explicit instructions not to engage in the conduct (Hasnas, 2006). Under this presumption and law of corporate criminal responsibility “there is nothing a corporation can do to ensure that it is not guilty of a criminal offense. Corporate managers know that no matter how good their firm’s internal controls, they cannot guarantee that there will be no intentional or inadvertent violations of law by its employees” (Hasnas, 2006). If an employee is…
Corporate Social Responsibility is a business plan and sometimes refers as corporate responsibility. This business model describes the social responsibility of corporations towards the society and environment. Corporate Social Responsibility concept has been used by many businesses as it encourages community growth and development. In addition, it allows a number of corporations to voluntarily reduce harmful activities in the society.…
*corporate crime: any act committed by a corporation that is punished by the state, regardless whether it is punished under administrative, civil, or criminal law…
There are a few reasons that I feel Company Q is concerned more with profit than social responsibility. The first is the closing of a couple of stores. The given states Company Q closed these stores due to revenue loss; however, it also states the store was in a high-crime-rate area of the city. By using the little information in the given I would assume that the store was closed more because of the climate of the area and not the loss of revenue. If it was in fact due to the climate of the area, then poor research was done when the store was built there. By closing these stores Company Q was more concerned with profit than social responsibility because now they have laid off employees, which may create a higher crime rate. They may have also left a building vacant, if this was already in a challenged area of the city a vacant building may turn into a liability.…
The first area that could be improved regarding the company’s attitude towards social responsibility is its reputation. “The value of a positive reputation is difficult to quantify, but it is very important. A single negative incident can influence perceptions of a corporation’s image and reputation instantly and for years afterwards” (Ferrell, Ferrell, Fraedrich, 2009, p. 18). There are many repercussions that can form from Company Q closing its stores in the higher crime rate areas, such as the loss of jobs, the rise in vacant buildings and the possibility of increased crime near those vacant structures. These effects could not only damage the company’s reputation, but it can give their customers and the community the perception that Company Q does not care for them. Additionally, by increasing the…
Today marks the three year anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza. Before the structurally flawed factory crumbled, Rana Plaza produced fashions for companies such as Joe Fresh, Primark, Walmart and the Gap. Over 1,130 people died when the building caved and 2,500 more were pulled from the rubble alive but injured and mentally scarred.…
Corporate Criminal Liability (p. 270-271)—holding corporations as an entity, as opposed to the individual personnel of corporations, responsible for illegal acts.…
DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN OF INDUSTRIES DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA CONTENTS Sl. No. 1.…
In considering the existence of corporate crimes and acknowledging that to each victim there is an individual cost, how can we explain the lack of reporting, detection and punishment?…
However, crimes that companies commit themselves in the pursuit of maintaining or increasing their profit margins are called 'corporate crimes'. These crimes can cover activities as varied as contravening pollution laws, neglecting health and safety legislation or breaking the Food and Drugs Act. The diverse nature of these crimes means that it is not usually revealed in police statistics, issued by the Home Office or Central Office of Information, but separately in information issued by the government bodies.…
They argue ruling class crime is also a result of capitalism, as it creates competition and the profit motivates greed; encouraging people to commit corporate crimes, such as tax evasion and breaking health and safety laws. Gordon (1976) claims crime is a rational response to capitalism and thus is found in all classes.…
8. Corporate crime- consists of the illegal actions of a corporation or people action on its behalf.…
The traditional Marxist view on crime is that capitalism is a system based on greed, competition, materialism and consumerism and that this creates the conditions for crime. They say that capitalism drives people to commit crime – crime is motivated by financial gain which is logical in a capitalist system, they also explain non-utilitarian crimes by saying they are caused by frustration with an unjust system. They believe that the capitalist system creates laws that seem to favour the working class and make them think the system is just but these are only put in place to placate them and give the appearance of fairness. Traditional Marxists also recognise that crime happens across all social strata’s and challenge the view that crime is a working class phenomenon. However, corporate crimes are often ignored or treated more leniently even though they are actually more harmful and costly than street crime.…