Compare and contrast occupational and organizational crimes. How are they similar to one another? What makes them distinct?
What will be an ideal response?
Occupational crime refers to personal violations that take place for self-benefit during the course of a legitimate occupation, whereas corporate (organizational) criminal behavior refers to crimes by business or officials, committed on behalf of the employing organizations. Although organizational crime refers to crime on behalf of the organization, it becomes corporate (business) crime when it is done for the benefit of a private business. Thus, much of what ordinarily would be branded as corporate crime in a free enterprise economy is labeled organizational crime when committed by state bureaucrats in socialist systems. The organizational, economic crimes discussed in this chapter are also distinct from political crimes by government; the latter have more to do with efforts to maintain power, ideology, and social control than with economic advantage.
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