Corporate crime essay

It has been established that most cases of corporate crime are settled before they reach the legal justice system. The work of the law courts is to hear and decide civil and/or criminal cases. They are thus not responsible for conducting investigations on any form of crime (Hartley, 2008).

Still, lack of public awareness on the nature of the various forms of corporate crime hinders the process of identifying, reporting, documenting and thus measuring corporate crime activities in the community (Yeager, & Clinard, 2006).

The law on corporate crime in the community has been very unfair to the victims of the practice. It is no uncommon to hear of fining a corporation for corporate crime rather than imposing corporation death penalty to compensate for the victims of the crime.

This essay is written as an argument in support of the thesis that “documenting and measuring the harm caused by corporate crime is more challenging than for other crimes, which is why responses to corporate crime are limited”. The author uses examples of corporate crime incidences in support of the argument.