caa a22 4500 386334919 CHVBK 20180307111730.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0829320100001538 doi S0829320100001538 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0829320100001538 Sargent Neil Department of Law, Carleton University Law, Ideology and Corporate Crime: A Critique of Instrumentalism [Elektronische Daten] [Neil Sargent] The paper explores the limitations of class instrumentalist analyses of law in accounting for the failure of the criminal justice system to control corporate crime. The first part of the paper examines current theoretical perspectives in Canadian corporate crime research, with particular emphasis on the class instrumentalist analyses of law which predominate in the literature. The remainder of the paper seeks to develop a critical analysis of corporate crime which avoids the reductionism of such class instrumentalist analyses. In particular, it is argued that attempts to theorize the failure of the criminal justice system to respond to corporate crime require investigation not only of external factors influencing the enactment and enforcement of legislation, but also of the manner in which ideological discourses are articulated through the form and content of criminal law in such a way as to reproduce the popular consent for the differential treatment of suite and street crime. Failure to problematize the ideological role of criminal law in legitimating the differential treatment of corporate and street crime is likely to undermine attempts to make corporate offenders more accountable for their illegal behaviour by further criminalizing certain types of corporate behaviour. Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1989 Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 4(1989), 39-75 0829-3201 4<39 1989 4 CLS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100001538 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0829320100001538 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sargent Neil Department of Law, Carleton University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian journal of law and society Cambridge University Press 4(1989), 39-75 0829-3201 4<39 1989 4 CLS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge