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In this chapter, we draw direct comparisons between corporate crime and terrorism in order to improve our understanding on how to better control each. We acknowledge obvious differences between the corporate criminal and the terrorist organization, but also raise important similarities between them. Namely, corporations and terrorist organizations both strive to survive in highly competitive environments and have adopted more complex organizational structures over time to achieve this goal. However, it is this organizational complexity thatmakes it difficult for criminal justice officials to detect and prosecute illicit behavior. After drawing upon the literature in both areas to describe organizational complexity, we offer several (surprisingly similar) recommendations to better control the corporate criminal and the terrorist organization.
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Dugan, L., Gibbs, C. (2009). The Role of Organizational Structure in the Control of Corporate Crime and Terrorism. In: Simpson, S.S., Weisburd, D. (eds) The Criminology of White-Collar Crime. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09502-8_6
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