International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science

ISSN: 2469-6501 (Online)

DOI: 10.33642/ijbass
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Author(s): Dr. Mwenda Kailemia
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This article examines the notion of corporate sociopathy apropos of the 2013 food scandal in which results of DNA tests carried out by the Food Standards Agency revealed up to 29% horse DNA in economy foods. Despite the pervasive culture of food fraud with at least 1305 different ingredient adulteration cases since 1980- there has been little examination of how we, as a society, are affected by the seemingly ‘harmless’ sociopaths who, as we reveal, are the main drivers of mid level corporate crime in the food industry. As such, contemporary analyses of sociopathy have limited their purview to occupations such as banking, law, and stock brokerage etcetera- perhaps because of the inherent conditions favourable to sociopathy within these career paths (Pech & Slade, 2007; Akhtar et al. 2012, Thomas, 2013). By examining the EU meat scandal, we aim to lob the much needed canisters at the criminological thinking which misses this complex and toxic rhizomes of corporate criminality, specifically the sociopathic culture exploiting the 'white spaces of capitalism' in the EU.
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