Dated but it Is Still

¶ … dated but it is still relevant to module 1 which regards corporate violence. The author makes note that many people fixate on the impact of physical violence but that corporate violence is much more widespread and much more destructive than physical violence and it's not even close. The author makes use of an example of somebody saying that black people are responsible for most crime in Washington DC but when considering all crime including the scope and effect of the aftermath. The author also points out that the idea that a corporation cannot engage in crime is specious and false. While the criminal acts are always perpetrated by individuals at its root, the corporation can act in a unified but criminal fashion. The article also talks about invasion of privacy and silencing of corporate critics. This article relates to the reading in that corporate violence is very real as also described in the class text and that its effects are pervasive and much more damaging to the lives and structures of society than a single act of physical violence against one individual. For example, Enron (which was the actions of mostly three executives) damaged thousands and thousands of lives…both customers and employees of Enron (Mokhiber, 1991).

Corporate Fraud Article

The other article the author of this paper addresses disc 2 of the module, which relates to corporate fraud. The article speaks about how legal action and settlements for legal cases that involve corporate fraud rarely emanate from individuals. Even though individuals are ultimately the ones who commit the fraud, even if it's in a systematic and organization fashion within the scope of a corporation, individual settlements are rarely come to or negotiated. Rather, the corporation usually pays the legal settlements. This is even true of United States Department of Justice settlements relating to cases where corporations have defrauded the government to the tune of eight billion dollars, such as was the example given in the article. This article relates to the reading as it displays what happens in the legal world when corporate fraud is discovered and just who it affects from a money standpoint and a career standpoint. Generally, the corporation takes the money hit rather than specific people when a fraud is discovered (Schmidt, 2012).