The sociology of corporate crime: An obituary - (or: Whose knowledge claims have legs?)

This article makes three arguments: first, that the brand of state regulati on known as corporate crime has basically disappeared; second, that it has been argued into obsolescence through neoliberal knowledge claims advanced through specific discourses by powerful elites; and third, that the accepta nce of these knowledge claims cannot be understood without examining their relationship to the corporate counter-revolution that has, over the last tw o decades, legitimized virtually every acquisitive, profit-generating act o f the corporate sector, transforming the developed land developing) world.