The situation cries out for understanding what was going on in the minds of the executives who allowed the situation to develop and continue. Another writer states, "How could these two companies have communicated with one another so poorly? If you have an alliance and the product which it produces is defective, how are blame and liability apportioned? Who should take responsibility? How do alliance partners hedge against the possibility that one may damage the other's brand? (Garten, 2000, p
They also gained terrible reputations with their customers. Another writer, speaking of the aftermath writes, "They demonstrate all too clearly the need for consumer watchdogs and for strong, vigilant oversight of the marketplace" (Guest, 2002)
As testimony continued, it became apparent that Ford and Firestone knew about the problem with the tires long before they publicly acknowledged it. A reporter notes, "Bridgestone/Firestone was tracking problems with its Firestone ATX tires as long ago as 1994, documents show, and a recently retired Bridgestone/Firestone official swears in a lawsuit deposition that top executives, including the CEO, were discussing the matter at quarterly meetings, at least since 1997" (Healey, 2000)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) played a role, as well. The companies did not notify the NHTSA of their tire recalls in other countries, but the NHTSA had antiquated tire regulations that pre-dated the bias-ply tires that Firestone produced, and NHTSA had received complaints about the tires but had mishandled them and failed to address them (Mashaw, 2003)
Hundreds of people were killed and injured as a result of the tire separating and resulting crashes. Two journalists note, "The maelstrom of controversy over alleged defective tires for SUVs and trucks produced by Firestone during the summer and fall of 2000 illustrates an amazing blunder that resulted from a failure to identify problem signals" (Murnighan & Mowen, 2002, p
However, with the rapid development of technology and communications, people and organizations can have greater influence beyond boarders; which includes those who wish to commit crimes. For example, the Isis organization would most likely not have existed without support from western powers and their regional allies; this support also facilitated the travel of jihadis from 80 countries into Syria, funded them, and then trained and armed them (Banisadr, 2014)
Crimes that are more opaque or occur on broad scales can be difficult to study. As such, geographers of crime are behind other research efforts in the field and most of the research that has been conducted so far is focused on crime on a national or regional level (Hall, 2012)
Sociology of Crime It was argued by Greek historian, Herodotus, that there are no universal ethics and that all ethical systems were somehow relative to factors concerning the population (Ishay, 2008)
This analysis will provide a brief discussion of how globalization is affecting new generations of crime. Globalization and Crime Scholarly research reveals strong correlations between the perpetrator's criminal conduct, generic criminal laws, the proper role of penal law in public policy, and the critical analysis of penal law however these relationships cannot be understood outside its social context (physical space, institutional process, patterns of relationships and individual variation): crime's existence and representation at a global level argues for the unity and generalization of social problems (Ristea, 2011)
The impact of globalization on cultural norms has applied a powerful effect on how these factors interlace. One study looked at a fifteen year period in Mumbai and examined how political reforms throughout this period worked to empower local crime syndicates with global connections (Weinstein, 2008)
The sonnets were well received by the public and eventually helped Mickiewicz to get a government position. Mickiewicz's sonnets provide an illustrative view of the Crimean landscape through Edward Said has contended that orientalism is a Western "system of representations" that "constitutes, contains, and appropriates the Orient by speaking on its behalf and is thus by its very nature imperial" (Koropeckyj 661)
The logical trend does agree with the facts that these cities point out, namely that the lower the income gap a metropolis boasts, the lower the crime. (Bushway & Reuter, 2012) Increased police presence is the most important aspect of creating a low-crime community, as the police are the active defenders of the public
Police also have access to advanced databases that can match criminals to crimes better than ever, and this technology has even moved into squad cars, giving officers a better chance than ever before to collect good intelligence and to keep the central police database stocked with photographs and tidbits about criminals that have been caught or who are still on the run. (Drehle, 2010) The tools of this trade have expanded in recent years, with video surveillance and wireless networking making the protection of neighborhoods much easier
The creation of SWAT units, for example, provides an instant anti-criminal defense force anywhere in the country, instead of relying on military national guard teams that may take longer to mobilize. (McGreal, 2011) In conclusion, we see that crime rose and fell based on the rise in access and acceptance of drugs, as well as a lack of good infrastructure to keep our cities safe, but that intelligent city officials and anti-crime measures can create harmonious answers to the problem of crime
Major cities are now enjoying a renaissance of less crime than present in 50 years, particularly in Los Angeles and New York City. (Venkatesh, 2011) Those who saw the problems that existed in America put their heads together and created a method of dual crime fighting measures to enact in the country's cities and communities, in order to create a more harmonious society
How did organized crime come to have such enormous power in Russia? There are three reasons offered by Barkan (which he got from Cameron Hall, 1997): a) the sudden collapse of the communist control over the legislative, executive and judicial components of the country meant that those forces that had in previous years managed to keep organized crime groups somewhat in check were not there anymore; in other words, there was a "power vacuum" and organized crime was quick to fill that vacuum; b) the very fact that the economy quickly transitioned from a socialist to a capitalist system "opened a wide range of previously nonexistent criminal opportunities"; and c) there was no real set of laws dealing with property or the changing economy and this allowed corruption to flourish (Barkan, 110). An article in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (Albini, et al
Meanwhile professor Steven Barkan (University of Maine) goes a little deeper into Soviet history to explain the emergence of organized crime. The Russian Revolution of 1917 offered glowing promises of "a workers' paradise" but in fact what the people got was a "dictatorship" founded by elitists in the Communist Party (Barkan, 2011, p
Professor Gennadii Khokhriakov explains that the corrupt values in the Soviet Union really began well before the end of communism with a kind of "underground business" that eventually led to organized crime. Underground "entrepreneurs" counted on the support of ordinary workers, who "kept quiet… in return for higher pay" when petty theft occurred in full view of their workstations (Khokhriakov, 2002, p
It is no wonder these crimes could take place because "…No investment literature existed before 1991, and very little exists today" (Neimanis, 358). The Literature -- Did new Political Realities Spawn More Organized Crime? Authors David Kotz and Fred Weir suggest in their book that organized crime was a "serious but peripheral phenomenon" in the old Soviet Union but it "…emerged as a major force in Russia" (Kotz, et al
Stephen Mallory argues that it is perfectly logical for gangs began to exist (organized crime gangs) right after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Why? Because a "large number of Russians were earning as little as $11 per day" and though those poor wage earners did not necessarily wish to be lavishly rich, they simply wanted to survive (Mallory, 2011, p