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This chapter applies state-corporate crime theory as well as the integrative model of state-corporate crime to analyze how the involvement of KBR and their subcontractors in the crimes of human trafficking and forced labor can be explained on criminological grounds. The analysis will focus on the three catalysts for action identified by Kramer and Michalowski (State-corporate crime: wrongdoing at the intersection of business and government. Rutgers University Press, 2006): (1) motivation, (2) opportunity, and (3) control.
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See ACLU, 2012, p. 28 for a hypothetical fraudulent contractor recruitment scenario including estimated amounts of money earned by prime contractor, subcontractor, recruitment agent, and TCN.
- 2.
With regard to the duties of KBR in Iraq, “materials required to complete the job” are, for example, trucks for transporting goods and personnel, construction materials, and food, but also the workers required to run the military bases.
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Cole, C., Vermeltfoort, R. (2018). Analysis. In: U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70827-0_6
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