Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
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BILL MOYERS: I read an essay last night where you describe what you call a criminogenic environment.
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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)
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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)
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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".
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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
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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.
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