But very serious consequences can result frompeople or organisations not considering the possibleresults of their actions seriously enough.The maincrime here was indifference to the human resultsrather than actual intention to harm anyone,butthat didn't make the results any less tragic.And thisleads me to my second point -- that corporatecrime can have very severe consequences.It's notjust a matter of companies making bigger profitsthan they should do,but of events which may affectihe lives of innocent people,
and yet very often companies, because they say theydidn't intend to harm anyone, can avoid taking responsibility for the results of theiractions.And that has been a very dangerous loophole in the law.A further example ofcorporate crime was ...