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This research uses state-corporate crime theory to analyze the DynCorp-case, due to the inter-organizational relationship between DynCorp as a business corporation and the US government as a state agency and contractor of DynCorp in the Bosnia case. The research uses the integrated theoretical framework developed by Kramer and Michalowski (1990) to analyze the criminal activities. The framework explicates different factors that may contribute to the production of social harm on the intersections of three levels of analysis, the institutional, organizational, and individual level, and three catalysts for action, motivation, opportunity structure, and operationality of control.
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Cole, C., Vermeltfoort, R. (2018). Theoretical Framework. In: U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70827-0_12
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