financial corporate crime: from typology to criminology

Document Type : Scientific research

Authors

• hesam ghapanchi ¹
• hamidreza danesh nari ²
• Nahid Mudavi ³

¹ ferdowsi university

² shahid beheshti university

³ islamic azad university

https://doi.org/10.22067/le.v21i6.26831

Abstract

corporations have a key role in economic development, growth of national security and financial competition. the key of power is in economy. so in the global village, the economic competition replaces military conflict. a new concept in criminal justice is corporate crime. these crimes as a kind of white collar crime are studied in light of critical criminology
findings of this study shows that financial corporate crime are high. some of them are economic spying, corporate fraud, tax evasion, false accounting, false advertising and price fixing.
the most important approaches in criminology of these crimes are criminogenic corporate culture, economic pressure theory and rational choice theory.

Keywords

• price fixing
• criminogenic corporate culture
• corporate crime
• white collar crime

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