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Individual quality of life and community quality of life are affected when states and corporations act together to commit “state-corporate crime” behavior by cooperating economic and political entities that violates international law and is socially injurious (Michalowski and Kramer 2006, p. 13). Many different kinds of state-corporate crimes have been documented. Although state and corporate deviance and power abuse have always been challenged, and sometimes limited, by social movements, ideological conditioning leads many individuals to ignore or support state-corporate crime. The ability of state and corporate rulers to generate public support for their criminality by legitimating it reduces quality of life by contributing to massive and widespread harms that materially benefit few.
Our focus here is on an important example of state-corporate crime in the United States: twenty-first-century illegal military action. This is a state-corporate crime with immediate and...
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Klein, J.R. (2023). State-Corporate Crime and Public Opinion. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_4011
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