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Globalization and Predatory Corporations

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Mainstream criminologists and many social scientists have little trouble talking about certain criminals as “super-predators” when referring to what comes to people’s mind thinking about “crime,” that is, working-class crime. Conventional criminologists have long complained how America has become home to “thickening ranks of juvenile ‘super-predators’ – radically impulsive, brutally remorseless youngsters, including ever more pre-teenage boys, who murder, assault, rape, rob, burglarize....” (Bennett et al. 1996: 27).

However any comparative assessment of harm reveals that the modern super-predators who cause the greatest harm are major well-known corporations, many working globally who deal out theft, physical violence, destruction, and death on a scale that makes blue-collar crime in comparison shrink to near invisibility. In 2000, e.g., the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report identified some 407,842 robberies in the USA netting $US477 million or an average of $US1,170 per robbery. In 2000,...

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Bessant, J., Watts, R. (2017). Globalization and Predatory Corporations. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1307-1

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