There are two more points to do with corporatecrime that I'd like to illustrate with reference to aspecific event which occurred several years ago.Thiswas an explosion of a large oil tanker which causedthe loss of more than fifty lives of the crew.It wasan explosion which never should have happenedand a subsequent inquiry laid the blame not onanyone who had actually been on the tanker at thetime, but on the owners of the tanker.They haddeliberately decided not to carry out necessaryrepair work on the tanker as it was due to besold,and it was this lack of repair work which wasdirectly responsible for the explosion.
Now this illustrates two points to do with corporate crime.First of all, that it does not have tobe intentional. The owners of the tanker certainly did not intend it to explode.
