Definitions
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- adjective Producing or tending to produce crime or criminality.
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- adjective tending to produce
crime orcriminals
Etymologies
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Examples
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BILL MOYERS: I read an essay last night where you describe what you call a criminogenic environment.
BC Bloggers Norman Farrell 2010
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BILL MOYERS: I read an essay last night where you describe what you call a criminogenic environment.
BC Bloggers Norman Farrell 2010
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Moreover, they were not perpetrated by isolated actors, but were part of what Bill Black calls a criminogenic environment.
Thomas Adams and Yves Smith: New York Times Muffs Merrill/Magnetar Piece (Corrected and Updated) Thomas Adams 2010
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Moreover, they were not perpetrated by isolated actors, but were part of what Bill Black calls a criminogenic environment.
Thomas Adams and Yves Smith: New York Times Muffs Merrill/Magnetar Piece (Corrected and Updated) 2010
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Other evidence suggests the company's accounting system helps it hide a pattern of activities that might be described as criminogenic, including those Cayman Islands brass-plate subsidiaries (like the one used to do business in Iran) and the lawsuit by former employees alleging the accounting fraud goes much deeper.
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"And a lot of these products are criminogenic - in other words, they are naturally attractive to criminals because designers make these gadgets look sexy."
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Worse than that, they insist on using long words like "criminogenic".
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Worse than that, they insist on using long words like "criminogenic".
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This dynamic is what has led leading corporate crime experts to describe corporations as "criminogenic" cultures.
Charlie Cray: DoJ's New Corporate Crime Policy: Cuff the Cops Instead 2008
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Liar's loans are "criminogenic" (they create epidemics of mortgage fraud) because they create strong incentives to provide false information on loan applications.
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis Michael Shedlock 2010
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By the 1990s, several large-scale policing studies revealed that arresting – instead of mediating, offering services in lieu of arrest, or temporary separation – could be criminogenic: that is, it could escalate domestic violence, especially in poor minority communities with high rates of unemployment.
In the fight for gender justice, criminal law should be a last resort – Aya Gruber | Aeon Essays Aya Gruber 2023
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