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45 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc45 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime, Law & Social Change (2006) 45: 1-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10611-005-9004-2 © Springer 2006 Re-imagining crime prevention: Controlling corporate crime? ANNE ALVESALO', STEVE TOMBS2, ERJA VIRTA3 and DAVE WHYTE4 'Police College of Finland, PL 13, Miestentie 2, 02151 Espoo, Finland; 2School of Social Science, Clarence Street, John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5UG; 3Authority Co-operation Development Project, Paasivuorenkatu 5B, 5th Floor; 00530 Helsinki, Finland; 4Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, Colin Bell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK Abstract. While the discourses and practices of crime prevention are of increasing salience, few criminologists have sought the inclusion of corporate illegalities on such agendas. Relatedly, within criminology, there has been a diminished tendency to think in idealistic, utopian and emancipatory terms. This paper is one small attempt to think in precisely such terms.1 But it is not an exercise in pure imagination. In particular, the paper makes extended reference to Finland, where recent experience suggests that corporate crime prevention may be feasible, under certain conditions, albeit subject to certain limitations. Thus we consider both the desirability and the feasibility of corporate crime prevention intruding upon the generally narrowly constructed terrain of 'crime prevention'. We begin with a critique of some of the key aspects of crime prevention discourses - at both theoretical and practical levels - with a particular emphasis upon the extent to which these are both more appropriately and usefully applied to corporate crime prevention, before going on to discuss corporate crime prevention 'in action', through a focus upon recent developments in Finland. In a concluding section, we consider various aspects of both the desirability and feasibility of corporate crime prevention. 1. Introduction In recent years, numerous commentators have highlighted the increasing salience of discourses and practices of crime prevention, which have shifted from being of marginal intellectual interest to become a significant con- cern of governments in many countries and regions, with specific practices and politics realised at national, regional and particularly multi-local levels.2 However, criminologists have largely failed to challenge emergent crime pre- vention agendas in any fundamental way. Further, with criminologists be- coming increasingly embroiled in, and well-rewarded for, research around the micro-evaluation and development of criminal justice policy and prac- tice, one consequence has been a diminished capacity to think in idealistic, utopian and emancipatory terms.3 One measure of this diminished capacity is that criminologists have not sought the inclusion of corporate illegalities on this agenda.4 This paper makes a case for this inclusion and as such rep-

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