ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on crimes that benefit the group and on normative obligations that encourage such behavior, it is often the case that such actions necessarily involve collusion with other groups. Of course, one can act in a strictly predatory fashion, but often a better strategy is to forge alliances with important business and political leaders. Some distinctions and refinements are necessary to highlight white-collar crimes that are relevant to our current discussion. Such a distinction is particularly appropriate to the current discussion of white-collar crimes. Moreover, if the crime is committed primarily to benefit the organization rather than an individual, it is often treated differently by the criminal justice system. Moreover, if the crime is committed primarily to benefit the organization rather than an individual, it is often treated differently by the criminal justice system. A typical example involves the rash of banking scandals that have occurred in the mid- to late 1990s.
