State-Corporate Crime in the Extractive Industry

Abstract

This article studies criminal features of extractive industry projects in Latin America. The analysis is developed from the concept of state-corporate crime (SCC), which refers to a harmful form of interaction between the interests and practices of political and economic actors. Here is postulated a specific modality that is proposed as state-corporate crime related to raw material (SCC-RRM). After a contextual exposition of the extractive industry, the text conceptualizes state-corporate crime, and briefly presents four cases. The analysis focuses on the systematization of information related to the activities, interactions and damages caused in said cases; to finally present relevant characteristics of state-corporate crime related to raw materials