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State-corporate crime has been defined as the illegal or socially injurious actions that occur when one or more institutions of political governance pursue a goal in direct cooperation with one or more institutions of economic production and distribution (Kramer et al. 2002). Originating from a series of papers and articles produced by Ronald Kramer and Raymond Michalowski in the early 1990s (see Michalowski and Kramer 2006), the concept of state-corporate crime unites two parallel streams of criminological literature to draw attention to the mutually dependent interorganizational relationships between governments and private corporations. Scholarship on state-corporate crime seeks to breach the conceptual wall between economic crimes and political crimes in order to create a new lens through which criminologists can examine the ways illegal acts and social harms often emerge from intersections of economic and political power. While the concept of state-corporate crime could...
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Bradshaw, E.A., Kramer, R.C. (2014). State-Corporate Crime. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_117
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