Synopsis
Laurie Taylor explores the culture of corporate crime and how regulatory bodies serve to keep the police at arm's length.
- Programme: Thinking Allowed
- Episode: White Collar Crime: Regulation Of Crime
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Broadcast year: 2009
- Sociology | What are the patterns and trends in crime? | The social distribution of offending and victimisation; global crime; green crime; how countries in the global south may be used by transnational criminal groups and companies.
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