NCJ Number
140378
Date Published
1992
Length
25 pages
Annotation
This analysis of the private business sector's influence on the definition of white-collar crime argues that businesses influences occur not only through their influence on the enactment and administration of law but also through their everyday transactions organize their compliance with government regulations.
Abstract
Thus, it is important to look beyond the relationship between the regulator and the regulated to locate regulatory policy and practice within the complex networks of clients, legal and accounting personnel, and market competitors that offer authority and legitimacy for business activity. In addition, it is important to consider how variation in the organization of compliance affects the detection of regulatory violations and the distribution of enforcement actions. Thus, compliance itself is an important regulatory process. Notes and 79 references