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Looking for a list on corporate crime
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| Magnetonium |
Search engines are biased, as usual. I could not find a SINGLE page which has a very decent detailed list of (recent) corporations that have been fined for breaking the law, intentionally or even maybe incidentally. Please, many thanks ... I accept private messages as well in case someone doesnt want to be seen. Thanks in advance. I need a big list, or lists.
I did find one page, though its statistics and no detail on violators, I found some awesome stats:
"For example, in its 2001 report the FBI estimated that the nation's total loss from robbery, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft in 2001 was $17.2 billion -- less than a third of what Enron alone cost investors, pensioners and employees that year."
"Corporations also cause more violence and death than street criminals. The U.S. national murder rate reported by the FBI is about 16,000 each year.
Compare that to the number of people who die from corporate-related causes each year:
** Over 5,000 workers are killed on the job each year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Millions more become sick or injured each year. A group of occupational health and safety investigators estimates that in 1992 alone there were 66,971 total job-related injury and occupational disease deaths. (See J. Paul Leigh, Ph. D., et al., Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.)
** Another study estimates that 70,000 Americans die annually from product-related accidents, and millions more suffer disabling injuries at a cost of over $100 billion in property damage, lost wages, insurance, litigation, and medical expenses. (Brobeck and Averyt, The Product Safety Book, New York: Dutton, 1983, reported in David O. Friedrichs, Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1996.)
** These numbers do not include the thousands of annual deaths caused by cancer and other diseases linked to corporate pollution, defective products, tainted food and addictive substances such as tobacco, and other causes. An estimated 553,400 people in the U.S. died from cancer in 2001. (See J. NCI:93:10, ‘Stat Bite” May 6, 2001). Using conservative estimates put forth by those who dismiss environmental causes of cancer as negligible (i.e. 2 percent of the total incidence of cancer deaths), author Sandra Steingraber calculates that at least 11,098 people died from cancers due to environmental causes (i.e. industrial pollution) in 2001. (Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 268-9.) "
"In 1979 the Justice Department issued “the first [and last] large-scale comprehensive investigation of corporations directly related to their violations of law.” Justice found that “approximately two-thirds of large corporations violated the law, some of them many times” over just a two year period (1975-1976). Actions that affected consumer product quality were “responded to with the least severe sanctions." (See “Illegal Corporate Behavior,” U.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, October 1979.)"
"In his pioneering 1949 study, White Collar Crime, Edwin Sutherland found that the 70 large corporations that he surveyed had an average of approximately four convictions each. In many states persons with four convictions are defined by statute to be “habitual criminals.” The frequency of criminal convictions of large corporations, Sutherland suggested, demonstrated the “fallacy of conventional theories that crime was due to poverty or to the personal and social pathologies connected with poverty.” Sutherland was particularly harsh in his characterization of corporate war profiteering (“profits are more important to large corporations than patriotism”)"
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http://www.corporatepolicy.org/issues/crimedata.htm
Also, I did find a link for top 100 corporate criminals of the 1990s - but I need something recent:
http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/top100.html
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnetonium
Search engines are biased, as usual. |
Biased ? So the search engines collude to keep this sort of information from the people ?
Either you need to do a better search or this type of data does not appear on websites. |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Biased ? So the search engines collude to keep this sort of information from the people ?
Either you need to do a better search or this type of data does not appear on websites. |
Yeah, you know, their algorithms are sentient. |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shakka
Yeah, you know, their algorithms are sentient. |
Sorry Mag, it's appears the CIA [insert random high-level underground agency here] has rewritten all search engine scripts, preventing you from spying on private corporations.
They do however, now have all your private information and they suggest you should dump your sheep pOrn...:p |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Sorry Mag, it's appears the CIA [insert random high-level underground agency here] has rewritten all search engine scripts, preventing you from spying on private corporations.
They do however, now have all your private information and they suggest you should dump your sheep pOrn...:p |
its been logged ;) |
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| Magnetonium |
Well, judging by the number of links given to my "simple" request, I think you guys are absolutely dam right! :D :D |
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| Magnetonium |
No offense, but its not only my search skills that suck ... interesting links you provided, but its mainly on the FBI-related material, and not what I was requesting. But thanks for it anyway, there were some interesting details I read on the links. |
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| Magnetonium |
I mean, its astonishing at just how much of corporate crime is out there and how it affects all of us every day, and there's just one website (that I found) that has even a bit of detail on all of them. I guess its not that important of a topic at all. |
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| Fir3start3r |
Corporate crime / corruption has been around since the dawn of time.
I would think if there was a sure fire way to stop it, they'd be using it by now no?
Are you writing an essay / report on it? :conf: |
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| Magnetonium |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Corporate crime / corruption has been around since the dawn of time.
I would think if there was a sure fire way to stop it, they'd be using it by now no? |
If they'll keep using the current methods of dealing with corporate crime, same results should be expected to continue to happen. Plus, since the dawn of time corporations have developed methods of achieving greater success going around the law ... but the law is still the same.
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Are you writing an essay / report on it? :conf:
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Maybe I am, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe I am ....;)
EDIT: Other than environmental issues, there is nothing else that I research or talk about everyday that has anything to do with my current college studies ;) cheers ... btw, dont be a pain in a butt, I dont want to be mean to you!
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| Purple |
I think the kind of corporate crime Magneto's reffering to is when GE smuggles cocaine into US inside Washing Machines from South America ..
Or when FedEx operates in money laundering business between different subsidiaries of a large MNC. |
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