White Collar Crime at 75: Corporate Compliance in Declining and Emerging Economies

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel seeks to offer a new comparative perspective to white collar crime and corporate compliance. It first of all seeks to draw comparative insights about what shapes illegal economic behavior both in rich democracies that have recently witnessed crisis such as the Netherlands and the US, in emerging economies with young legal systems and limited liberal freedoms such as China, as well as between these types of economies. Second it seeks to combine scholarship both from criminologists drawing on insights form the field of white collar crime, and scholars of corporate compliance using insights from sociology, anthropology, political science, psychology and economics. By combining these case studies and perspectives the panel hopes to develop insights about how a broader context of crisis or rapid development, as well as the type of political regime (liberal democracy or responsive authoritarianism) affects illegal economic behavior and potential responses to it.

Sub Unit

• Area II. Types of Offending and Victimization / 22. White Collar, Occupational, Organizational and Corporate Crime

Individual Presentations

• Compliance in the absence of Sanctions: Insights from the Netherlands - Judith van Erp, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Peter Mascini, Erasmus University Rotterdam

• How insurance companies mediate the meaning of anti-discrimination law in the U.S. - Shauhin Talesh, University of California, Irvine

• Ethical corporate cultures and corporate tax compliance in the Netherlands - Adriaan Denkers, VU University Amsterdam; Wim Huisman, VU University Amsterdam

• The General Duty to Obey the Law Amongst Chinese Farmers, Lawyers, Waitresses and Construction Workers - Benjamin Van Rooij, University of California, Irvine; Wu Yunmei, University of Amsterdam; Huiqi Yan, University of Amsterdam; Li Na, University of Amsterdam

Chairs

• Benjamin Van Rooij, University of California, Irvine

• Wim Huisman, VU University Amsterdam

• Henry N. Pontell, University of California, Irvine