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CRIMINOGENIC
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Those conditions or structures which themselves seem to
create crime. Just as hospitals create disease (eg: infection) it is possible that prisons
or even courts or youth correction centres are ‘criminogenic’.
CRIMINOGENIC MARKET STRUCTURE
A criminogenic market structure is the unsaturated demand for and ready availability of
illegal goods (drugs, arms, vehicles, counterfeit money, endangered species products,
etc);
A economic market ( eg: for shoes, gasoline, etc) which
is structured in such a way that it tends to produce criminal behaviour.
Shipping and scuttling: Criminogenesis in marine
insurance
Journal Crime, Law and Social Change, Publisher Springer Netherlands, ISSN 0925-4994
(Print) 1573-0751 (Online)
Subject Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Issue Volume 28, Number 2 / September, 1997
DOI 10.1023/A:1008292912365
Eeuwke Faber, Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Sciences, University of Utrecht,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstract: Among the instances of maritime fraud, the scuttling of ships, the deliberate
sinking of a ship in order to collect the insurance money, stands out. It has been
suggested that marine transport is prone to infiltration by organized crime groups. These
are suggestions that have never been substantiated, but they could point towards a
criminogenic market-structure of the (marine) insurance industry. The Dutch marine
insurance-industry has a reputation to lose. The insuring of ships requires skill,
professionalism and money, but the practice of marine insurance has hardly changed since
the Dutch Golden Age. Drawing upon the results of two years of fieldwork in the Dutch
marine insurance industry, it will be argued that the scuttling of ships is interlinked
and intertwined with the practice of marine insurance and the way the marine insurance
industry is commercially and legally organized. An analysis of the
opportunity-for-fraud-structure of the (Dutch) marine insurance market will be made.
Interactionist conceptualizations of the "criminogenic
market structure" is described by Farberman 1975; Denzin 1977.
Farberman, Harvey. 1975. "A Criminogenic Market Structure: The Automobile
Industry." Sociological Quarterly 16: 438-457.
Denzin, "Notes on the Criminogenic Hypotheses: A Case Study of the American Liquor
Industry," 1977.
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