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GCSE Sociology · key term
Crime committed by employees on behalf of their company, such as illegally producing and selling unsafe products.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Crime and deviance key termsCorporate crime is committed by employees on behalf of their company, such as illegally making and selling unsafe products. The distinction concerns the occupational setting and whose behalf the offence serves.
Component 2
Crime committed by a company or people acting on its behalf to benefit the business, such as selling deliberately mislabelled goods.
For white-collar and corporate crime, identify who commits the offence and whose interests it serves. The categories can overlap.
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Corporate crime benefits a business; the 2013 horsemeat scandal, in which horsemeat was sold as beef, illustrates crime involving mislabelled goods.
Crime committed by or on behalf of a company to benefit the organisation, such as illegally breaching safety regulations to reduce costs.
