ABSTRACT
Around the world, global corporations drive governmental policies, unchecked by strong global policies to protect public health, human rights and the environment. This chapter argues that by combining the state routinization of corporate crime by multinationals with the contradictory demands of both neoliberalism and global capitalism, criminologists and other observers of the production of harm and victimization can consider why and how the world's most successful corporate, financial, and state perpetrators of injury and ruin are also, reciprocally speaking, the beneficiaries of civic etiquettes of conformity and suppression, of hegemonic discourses and regimes of truth, and of a heightened politics of fear and corruption. It discusses few related analytic assumptions derived from studies in the fields of social ecology about human nature, social behavior, and environmental interaction. The chapter analyses state-routinized crime and the underenforcement and/or decriminalization of the crimes of multinational corporations.
