Corporate Violence: A Different Kind Of Crime

Corporate violence is not the traditional violence that everyone generally assumes when they hear the word violence (Friedrichs, 2010). Typically the violence that everyone always thinks about is murder, assault, armed robbery and even rape, but the types of crimes that fall under corporate violence is harmful conditions, products or substances created by corporations from their policies or actions that indirectly affect the environment, consumers or workers (Friedrichs, 2010).
Corporate violence is a different kind of crime, this is because it actually generalizers the three different kind of crimes under one category. All of these crimes have widespread support for being accepted as a crime. This is mainly because corporate violence harms people in a few but very dangerous ways. Corporate violence harm is when the consumers, workers, or the environment becomes destroyed, injured, sickened by disease or killed (Friedrichs, 2010). …show more content…
Typically the people who are caught up in corporate violence are looking to maximize the profit that the company is bringing in (The-Crankshaft Publishing, 2014). On the opposite end there are the victims of corporate violence. The victims are not normally aware of the crimes that are happening to them because they will generally trust the companies that they use or buy from. These victims are not targeted by the corporations but still become victims unintentionally (The-Crankshaft Publishing, 2014). The reason for this is because the company will cut corners, disobey safety laws, or try and cover up wrong doing (The-Crankshaft Publishing, 2014). All of these things are the typical characteristics of the offenders and the