Corporate crime and state crime
Corporate crime (companies breaking laws for profit) and state crime (governments breaking laws) cause immense harm but are poorly prosecuted. They reveal that powerful actors are above law.
Real World
BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed 11 workers and devastated Gulf Coast ecosystems; BP paid fines but no executives faced prison — illustrating how corporate harm is treated as regulatory failure rather than crime.
Exam Focus
For 'assess' questions, use corporate/state crime as AO3 evaluation against official statistics — it challenges the view that crime is concentrated among the poor.
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