In-your-face Watergate: neutralizing government lawbreaking and the war against white-collar crime
| Autor: | Adam Kavon Ghazi-Tehrani, Henry N. Pontell, Robert Tillman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Corruption
media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Criminology Article Pathology and Forensic Medicine White-collar crime Politics Neutralization Political science Normalization (sociology) Enforcement 0505 law media_common 021110 strategic defence & security studies Government 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Rule of law 050501 criminology Law Administration (government) |
| Zdroj: | Crime, Law, and Social Change |
| ISSN: | 1573-0751 0925-4994 |
| Popis: | Ample official evidence exists that the Trump administration was the most corrupt in modern American history. Donald Trump’s overall pattern of behavior not only resembled, but amplified that of major white-collar criminals. This paper has two main foci. First, it argues that government criminality and corruption were facilitated by rationales and excuses that denied effective social condemnation of such acts. Second, it considers how these defenses were weaponized by the Trump administration as part of a much larger and more deliberate “war on white-collar crime” more generally. As a result, enormous efforts are necessary to restore and strengthen regulatory and enforcement regimes, and transcend deepened political cleavages on such matters. Through a new hybrid neutralization technique, normalization of condemning the condemners, Trump exacerbated existing political differences and influenced supporters to at once ignore government crime and corruption, and accept new moral narratives that flew in the face of substantial evidence of criminality. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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