ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, we examined crimes that impose nancial or pecuniary costs on their victims, be they individuals, government agencies, or other businesses. In this chapter, we apply the opportunity perspective to environmental, workplace safety, and manufacturing crimes. ese o enses are potentially much more serious. ey may impose real physical costs on individuals. is is not to say that the perpetrators deliberately set out to harm other people. ey do not. e physical harms that they cause are unintended in the sense that they are not what the o ender is trying to achieve. e motivation for the o ense is not to impose harm on others but rather to gain a nancial advantage. Physical harm, however, is always a potential side e ect. us, we examine what has been called the “quiet violence” of corporations (Frank, 1985).
