Regimes of Permission and State-Corporate Crime

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Regimes of Permission and State-Corporate Crime

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Author(s): David Whyte ¹

Publication date (Print, pub): 1 October 2014

Journal: State Crime Journal

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Keywords: state, corporation, state crime, corporate crime, corporate structures, regulation

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The state-corporate crime literature has given momentum to a fundamentally important task: that of “bringing the state back in” to the study of the social harms caused by corporations. Yet as this article argues, we need to widen the theoretical scope of the concept of “state-corporate crime” if we are to grasp the full significance of state-corporate symbiosis in the production of corporate crime. The article argues for a historically and systemically sensitive analysis of the state-corporate relation that takes account of the a priori constitutional features of the relationship between states and corporations in contemporary capitalist democracies. The article therefore uses the state-corporate crime literature as a point of departure for understanding a deeper structural relation between organized capital and state institutions.

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169

Journal ID (publisher-id): statecrime

Title: State Crime Journal

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 20466056

ISSN (Electronic): 20466064

Publication date (Print, pub): 1 October 2014

Volume: 3

Issue: 2

Pages: 237-246

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Publisher ID: statecrime.3.2.0237

DOI: 10.13169/statecrime.3.2.0237

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[1] Aglietta, M. ( 2000) A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience . London: Verso.

[2] Berle, A. ( 1962) “Modern Functions of the Corporate System”, Columbia Law Review 62( 3): 433– 449.

[3] Carson, W.G. ( 1980) “The Institutionalisation of Ambiguity: Early British Factory Acts”, in G. Geis and E. Stotland, eds, White-Collar Crime: Theory and Research . London: Sage.

[4] Coffee, J. ( 1981) “No Soul to Damn, No Body to Kick: An Unscandalised Inquiry into the Problem of Corporate Punishment”, Michigan Law Review 79( 3): 386– 459.

[5] Coleman, R., Sim, J., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. ( 2009) “Introduction: State, Power, Crime”, in R. Coleman, J. Sim, S. Tombs and D. Whyte, eds, State, Power, Crime . London: Sage.

[6] Galbraith, J.K. ( 1972) “On the Economic Image of Corporate Enterprise”, in R. Nader and M. Green, eds, Corporate Power in America . Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

[7] Gramsci, A. ( 1996) Selections from the Prison Notebooks ( vol. 1). London: Lawrence & Wishart.

[8] Hayden Griffin, O., III and Lee Miller, B. ( 2011) “OxyContin and a Regulation Deficiency of the Pharmaceutical Industry: Rethinking State-Corporate Crime”, Critical Criminology 19( 3): 213– 226.

[9] Keys, T. and Malnight, T. ( 2011) Corporate Clout: The Influence of the World's Largest 100 Economic Entities . London: Strategy Dynamics Global Limited.

[10] Kramer, R., Michalowski, R. and Kauzlarich, D. ( 2002) “The Origins and Development of the Concept and Theory of State-Corporate Crime”, Crime & Delinquency 48( 2): 263– 282.

[11] Lawson, P. ( 1993) The East India Company: A History . London: Routledge.

[12] Litvin, D. ( 2003) Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility . Mason: Texere.

[13] Mahon, R. ( 1979) “Regulatory Agencies: Captive Agents or Hegemonic Apparatuses?” Studies in Political Economy 1( 1): 162– 200.

[14] Mann, M. ( 1984) “The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results”, European Journal of Sociology 25( 2): 185– 213.

[15] Muttitt, G. ( 2011) Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq . London: The Bodley Head.

[16] Nelson, R. ( 1959) Merger Movements in American Industry 1895–1956 . Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[17] Pencak, W. ( 2011) Historical Dictionary of Colonial America . Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

[18] Picket, K. ( 2011) “Occupy Wall Street Protesters Post Manifesto of ‘demands’”, The Washington Times , 3 October. Available online at http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/oct/3/picket-occupy-wall-street-protesters-post-manifest/ (accessed 12 February 2014).

[19] Slapper, G. ( 1999) Blood in the Bank: Social and Legal Aspects of Death at Work . Aldershot: Ashgate.

[20] Snider, L. ( 1991) “The Regulatory Dance: Understanding Reform Processes in Corporate Crime”, International Journal of the Sociology of Law 19( 2): 209– 237.

[21] Tombs, S. ( 2012) “State-Corporate Symbiosis in the Production of Crime and Harm”, State Crime 1( 2): 170– 195.

[22] Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. ( 2009) “The State and Corporate Crime”, in R. Coleman, J. Sim, S. Tombs and D. Whyte, eds, State, Power, Crime . London: Sage.

[23] Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (forthcoming) The Corporate Criminal . London: Routledge.

[24] Whyte, D. ( 2004) “Corporate Crime and Regulation”, in J. Muncie and D. Wilson, eds, The Student Handbook of Criminology and Criminal Justice . London: Cavendish.

[25] Whyte, D. ( 2013) “Market Patriotism: The Liberal Mask Slips”, in R. Fisher, ed., Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent . London: Corporate Watch.

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