Moving Backstage: Uncovering the Role of Compliance Practices in Shaping Regulatory Policy (From White-Collar Crime Reconsidered, P 244-268, 1992, Kip Schlegel and David Weisburd, eds - See NCJ-140367)

• NCJ Number: 140378
• Author(s): N Reichman
• Date Published: 1992
• Length: 25 pages
• Sale Source: Northeastern University Press
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This analysis of the private business sector's influence on the definition of white-collar crime argues that businesses influences occur not only through their influence on the enactment and administration of law but also through their everyday transactions organize their compliance with government regulations.

Abstract

Thus, it is important to look beyond the relationship between the regulator and the regulated to locate regulatory policy and practice within the complex networks of clients, legal and accounting personnel, and market competitors that offer authority and legitimacy for business activity. In addition, it is important to consider how variation in the organization of compliance affects the detection of regulatory violations and the distribution of enforcement actions. Thus, compliance itself is an important regulatory process. Notes and 79 references