Organised And Occupational Crimes: Occurrence And Prevention

Anushka Mukherjee, Symbiosis Law School, Nagpur

ABSTRACT:

This research examines the relationships between elements of a corporation or business organization and the occurrence of organized crimes including occupational crimes. This research seeks to demonstrate that the factors identified by existing literature as factors contributing to occupational crimes may also contribute to organized crime. Using the concept of the “Trilateral fraud pillar” that we have found as a framework, five aspects of corporations are identified as areas that may motivate crimes, provides opportunity for crime, or allow for the rationalization or justification of criminal actions. This research finds that corporate size, inadequate oversight, organizational goals, organizational morality & ethics, and compensation structures may play a vital role in an organized crime. These five factors are subsequently classified as either structural or social aspects of an organization, and a more detailed system of causal factor classification as related to occupational crimes in a corporation is proposed.

Keywords: Organized crimes, corporate crimes, White collarcrimes, Compensation structure, Criminology, Corporate ethics, Occupational crimes, corporate structure, corporate culture, offender characteristics, social status.