Criminology and Corporate Power
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What is the purpose of contracts that prohibit employees from publicising certain facts?

  • To protect employees from reputational damage
  • To bring the employer into disrepute
  • To promote transparency within the institution
  • To prevent employees from revealing information that might damage their employer's reputation (correct)
  • What is the term used to describe the process of sustaining silence through formal disciplinary procedures and legal obligations?

  • Ignorance-making (correct)
  • Knowledge suppression
  • Reputational management
  • Agnosis
  • According to Proctor, why do institutions uphold and maintain ignorance?

  • To divert attention from difficult stories (correct)
  • To promote transparency within the institution
  • To protect their employees from reputational damage
  • To exploit uncertainty about particular events or identities
  • What does the term 'ignorance' refer to, according to Croissant and Dossey?

    <p>Knowledge that has been denied, distorted, dismissed, or hidden</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one way in which ignorance can be created, according to Dossey?

    <p>Through media neglect and obfuscation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do Barton et al. suggest exists in relation to ignorance?

    <p>A continuum of ignorance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the title of the 2014 journal article by Dossey?

    <p>Agnotology: On the varieties of ignorance, criminal negligence, and crimes against humanity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which publication is the source of the article 'NZ workplace death rate 'appalling''?

    <p>Otago Daily Times</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the taskforce that published a report on workplace health and safety in 2013?

    <p>The Report of the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Health and Safety He Korowai Whakaruruhau</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who are the authors of the book 'State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption'?

    <p>Green and Ward</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what year was the book 'State Crime and Civil Activism: On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance' published?

    <p>2019</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the title of the book by Lasslett published in 2014?

    <p>State Crime on the Margins of Empire</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the outcome of the Court of Appeal's decision regarding the judicial review?

    <p>Upholding the High Court decision</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to bereaved family members, what was the example of in the court proceedings?

    <p>Checkbook justice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can prioritizing rogue companies or managers do?

    <p>Obscure the economic, political, and sociocultural structural conditions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a condition that allows state–corporate harms to occur in New Zealand?

    <p>Limited state regulations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which country do the described conditions that allow state–corporate harms to occur also exist?

    <p>Multiple countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of the court proceedings for bereaved family members?

    <p>Those most responsible evaded prosecution</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can civilian resistance lead to in the short term?

    <p>Significant crises for states and corporations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary focus of state-corporate crimes?

    <p>Pursuit of economic production and distribution</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can be a result of state-corporate crimes?

    <p>Illegal or socially injurious actions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a state-corporate crime?

    <p>The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the long-term effect of civilian resistance on state-corporate relationships?

    <p>Reconfiguration of state-corporate relationships to normalise inequitable structural and social relations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who defined state-corporate crime?

    <p>Kramer and Michalowski</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What contributed to the prime conditions for disaster in the Pike River case?

    <p>Shareholder pressures on the company to extract coal at speed</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of state–corporate crimes, according to the text?

    <p>They are a normal part of capitalist societies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What facilitates the managed ignorance of inequitable relations of power?

    <p>States and corporations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is the resistance to silenced or false knowledge most likely to occur?

    <p>In the wake of state–corporate crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of the failure to regulate the mining industry and ensure worker protections?

    <p>Worsened conditions for disaster</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between capital investments and state–corporate crime, according to the text?

    <p>Diverse investments lead to different environments for state–corporate crime</p> Signup and view all the answers

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