ABSTRACT
There are a series of ways, some well recognised, others less so, in which states are complicit in the systematic, routine production of corporate crimes.
First, and most obviously, states are complicit in corporate crime production through their failures either to put into place more effective legal regimes, or to enforce adequately existing laws, or to respond effectively to violations of such laws, with respect to corporate activity. If all of this appears as complicity via omission, there is in fact a great deal of active work undertaken to maintain such omission – and this work will be explored.
