Driven by beliefs that stricter criminal laws, increased chances of conviction and more punitive sanctions will deter criminal behavior, governments in the developed world have engaged in systematically tightening up criminal justice systems. The article makes thee basic arguments: first, that the brand of state regulation known as corporate crime has basically disappeared; second, that it has been argued into obsolescence through neoliberal knowledge claims advanced thorough specific discourses by powerful elites. Third, that the acceptance of these knowledge claims cannot be understood with examining the corresponding relationship between knowledge claims and interests. According to the article corporate crime has disappeared by it definition,
