It's been defined as, quote 'crime which iscommitted for the corporate organisation' - thecompany - ‘not against it',unquote.
So crimes like theft by employees - things likeembezzlement or fraud against one's actualemployer are excluded according to this definition.
The employees may be involved but they're acting inthe first place for the company,
they may not even realise ihey're committing a crimeor they may realise but they feel it's excusablebecause it's policy,
or because otherwise they may lose their jobs.
So here, really, we're talking about the links between power and crime.
Now, this is one area that much less is generally known about than conventional ortraditional crime.
It has been relatively ignored by the mass media - for example,it tends to be under-reported incomparison with conventional crime in news broadcasts,
and in crime serials and films and so on - they very rarely deal with corporate crime.
And it also tends to be ignored in academic circles - theres been far more research onconventional crime and far more data is available.