The Quarterly Journal of Judicial Law Views

The Quarterly Journal of Judicial Law Views

Corporate Crimes: A Criminological Viewpoint

Author
Farid mohseni
Judicial Sciences and Administrative Services University.
Abstract
  Corporate crime is an extra pervasive and general term, including a broad spectrum of crimes. In spite of the importance and sensitivity, these crimes, has always been in the margin of the criminological considerations and the most criminological studies, theories and courts functions has devoted to violent or street crimes. Combating against corporate crime (as one type of the white collar crimes), requires the recognition of specifications and different aspects of this kind of criminal phenomenon that can be possible under the protection of criminological studies in this field. The present article is devoted to the most important characteristics of white collar and corporate crimes, as one of its subsets, their similarities and distinctions, differences with street crimes, and the study of the examples of corporate crimes in Iran’s laws, from a criminological viewpoint.
Keywords
Corporate Crime
white collar crime
Street Crime
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