ABSTRACT
The concept of state-corporate crime refers to crimes that result from the specific relationship between the state and commercially motivated corporations. State-initiated corporate crime occurs when corporations, employed by the government, engage in organizational deviance at the direction of, or with the tacit approval of, the government. 'Corporate-initiated state crime' occurs when corporations directly employ their economic power to coerce states into engaging in deviant actions. The emphasis of the integrated model is on what state crimes and other kinds of crime have in common. The contours of state-corporate crime scholarship are, however, changing; and this change can be credited to the exciting and challenging work of UK scholars associated with the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI), in particular that of Kristian Lasslett, Thomas MacManus, Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte. The role of public-relations (PR) corporations in state-crime denial presents one of the most significant new developments in state-corporate crime scholarship.
