Corporate Crime

by Pearce, Frank; Snider, Laureen

• ISBN13: 9780802076212
• ISBN10: 0802076211
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Corporate crime inflicts massive harm on employees, consumers, workplaces, economies, and the environment, but there are inadequate controls and few deterrent mechanisms, and sanctions are mild relative to the harm done. There is little agreement on remedies and praxis, reflecting an underlying diversity of opinion on the causes of corporate criminality. Corporate Crime is a collection of original papers by many of the world's leading experts on corporate crime, and covers its causes, extent, and control. It provides discussions of all the major areas of corporate criminal conduct, looking at the relationship between corporate structure and corporate crime. It opens up debate on appropriate control strategies to deter perpetrators and minimize harm. The discussions centre around strategies to control the social, economic, and political costs of various kinds of corporate crime - within the corporate organization and the fields of finance, occupational health and safety, and environmental degradation.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Regulating Capitalism	p. 19
Corporate Crime and Republican Criminological Praxis	p. 48
Should We Prosecute Corporations and/or Individuals?	p. 72
Feminism, Law, and the Pharmaceutical Industry	p. 87
Preliminary Observations on Strains of, and Strains in, Corporate Law Scholarship	p. 111
Corporate Crime and New Organizational Forms	p. 132
Management, Morality, and Law: Organizational Forms and Ethical Deliberations	p. 147
Loosely Coupled Systems and Unlawful Behaviour: Organization Theory and Corporate Crime	p. 168
Serious Fraud in Britain: Criminal Justice versus Regulation	p. 181
Saving the Savings and Loans? U.S. Government Response to Financial Crime	p. 199
Public Policy towards Individuals Involved in Competition-Law Offences in Canada	p. 214
And Defeat Goes On: An Assessment of Third-Wave Health and Safety Regulation	p. 245
Regulating Work in a Capitalist Society	p. 268
Judgments of Legitimacy regarding Occupational Health and Safety	p. 284
Environmental Harm and Corporate Crime	p. 305
Can Confrontation, Negotiation, or Socialization Solve the Superfund Enforcement Dilemma?	p. 322
Controlling Corporate Misconduct through Regulatory Offences: The Canadian Experience	p. 339
Due Process and the Nova Scotia Herbicide Trial	p. 352
Cases Cited	p. 367
References	p. 369
Author Index	p. 409
Subject Index	p. 419
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