Crime-Causing Agents in the Construction Industry; An Approach to State-Corporate Crimes (A Comparative Study in the Iranian and British Systems)

Darabpour, Mohammad Reza; Mirkamali, Seyed Alireza

doi:10.22034/jml.2024.1990967.1241

Crime-Causing Agents in the Construction Industry; An Approach to State-Corporate Crimes (A Comparative Study in the Iranian and British Systems)

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Reza Darabpour ¹

Seyed Alireza Mirkamali ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Allameh Rafiee Institute of Higher Education, Qazvin

² Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/jml.2024.1990967.1241

Abstract

The construction industry has great criminal potential. In some cases, the crimes committed in the construction industry are formed by government behaviors or policies, and their occurrence is practically impossible without the direct or indirect intervention of the government, public institutions, and sovereign decision-makers. This article has been compiled using the descriptive-analytical research method and using library sources, and with the approach of state-corporate crimes, it examines the emergence and impact of "criminal industrial structures" in the construction industry in connection with the decisions and interventions of the government. which is vital for the development of critical criminology discourse. And it can provide a clear framework for identifying the causes of crime and criminal policies in dealing with state-corporate crimes. Finally, it became clear that what drives the government to a criminal coexistence with the private sector is the diminution of the executive position of governments in economic and social relations, because today governments mostly play the role of supervisors and definers of processes, and it is the private sector that responds to economic needs. The society responds and the government expediency requires the government to take steps in line with the private sector.

Keywords

State-Corporate Crimes

Construction Industry

Engineering

Criminal Structure

Critical Criminology

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