Corporate Crime In America

Author : Steve Tombs,David Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135264338

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The Corporate Criminal by Steve Tombs,David Whyte Pdf

Drawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence, historical analysis and theoretical argument, this book shows beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making, corporation is a habitual and routine offender. The book dissects the myth that the corporation can be a rational, responsible, 'citizen'. It shows how in its present form, the corporation is permitted, licensed and encouraged to systematically kill, maim and steal for profit. Corporations are constructed through law and politics in ways that impel them to cause harm to people and the environment. In other words, criminality is part of the DNA of the modern corporation. Therefore, the authors argue, the corporation cannot be easily reformed. The only feasible solution to this 'crime' problem is to abolish the legal and political privileges that enable the corporation to act with impunity.

Author : Richard P. Conaboy
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788171611

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Corporate Crime in America by Richard P. Conaboy Pdf

This symposium focused on the ways in which companies, industries, & enforcement officials have responded to the organizational sentencing guidelines' incentives & other changes in the enforcement landscape that encourage businesses to develop strong compliance programs & adopt crime-controlling measures. Topics included organizational guidelines, corporate experiences in developing effective compliance programs, evolving compliance standards, enforcement schemes & policies, protection of compliance practices from disclosure, & the government's role in fostering good corporate citizenship.Ó Illustrated.

Author : Lawrence M. Salinger
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780761930044

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Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime by Lawrence M. Salinger Pdf

In a thorough reappraisal of the white-collar and corporate crime scene, this Second Edition builds on the first edition to complete the criminal narrative in an outstanding reference resource.

Author : John C. Coffee
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523088874

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Corporate Crime and Punishment by John C. Coffee Pdf

A study and analysis of lack of enforcement against criminal actions in corporate America and what can be done to fix it. In the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn’t happened. Corporations have been permitted to enter into deferred prosecution agreements and avoid criminal convictions, in part due to a mistaken assumption that leniency would encourage cooperation and because enforcement agencies don’t have the funding or staff to pursue lengthy prosecutions, says distinguished Columbia Law Professor John C. Coffee. “We are moving from a system of justice for organizational crime that mixed carrots and sticks to one that is all carrots and no sticks,” he says. He offers a series of bold proposals for ensuring that corporate malfeasance can once again be punished. For example, he describes incentives that could be offered to both corporate executives to turn in their corporations and to corporations to turn in their executives, allowing prosecutors to play them off against each other. Whistleblowers should be offered cash bounties to come forward because, Coffee writes, “it is easier and cheaper to buy information than seek to discover it in adversarial proceedings.” All federal enforcement agencies should be able to hire outside counsel on a contingency fee basis, which would cost the public nothing and provide access to discovery and litigation expertise the agencies don't have. Through these and other equally controversial ideas, Coffee intends to rebalance the scales of justice. “Professor Coffee’s compelling new approach to holding fraudsters to account is indispensable reading for any lawmaker serious about deterring corporate crime.” —Robert Jackson, professor of Law, New York University, and former commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission “A great book that more than any other recent volume deftly explains why effective prosecution of corporate senior executives largely collapsed in the post-2007–2009 stock market crash period and why this creates a crisis of underenforcement. No one is Professor Coffee’s equal in tying together causes for the crisis.” —Joel Seligman, author, historian, former law school dean, and president emeritus, University of Rochester

Author : Alison Burke,David Carter,Brian Fedorek,Tiffany Morey,Lore Rutz-Burri,Shanell Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636350682

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SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System by Alison Burke,David Carter,Brian Fedorek,Tiffany Morey,Lore Rutz-Burri,Shanell Sanchez Pdf

Author : Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674744615

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Too Big to Jail by Brandon L. Garrett Pdf

American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individuals, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States.

Author : Henry N. Pontell,Gilbert L. Geis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387341118

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International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime by Henry N. Pontell,Gilbert L. Geis Pdf

Insider trading. Savings and loan scandals. Enron. Corporate crimes were once thought of as victimless offenses, but now—with billions of dollars and an increasingly global economy at stake—this is understood to be far from the truth. The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime explores the complex interplay of factors involved when corporate cultures normalize lawbreaking, and when organizational behavior is pushed to unethical (and sometimes inhumane) limits. Featuring original contributions from a panel of experts representing North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, this timely volume presents multidisciplinary views on recent corporate wrongdoing affecting economic and social conditions worldwide. Criminal liability and intent Stock market and financial crime Bribery and extortion Computer and identity fraud Health care fraud Crime in the professions Industrial pollution Political corruption War crimes and genocide Contributors offer case studies, historical and sociopolitical analyses, theoretical and legal perspectives, and comparative studies, featuring examples as varied as NASA, Parmalat, the Italian government, and Watergate. Criminal justice responses to these phenomena, the role of the media in exposing or minimizing them, prevention, regulation, and self- policing strategies, and larger global issues emerging from economic crime are also featured. Richly diverse in its coverage, The International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime is stimulating reading for students, academics, and professionals in a wide range of fields, from criminology and criminal justice to business and economics, psychology to social policy to ethics. This powerful information is certain to change many of our deeply held views on criminal behavior.

Author : Lawrence M. Salinger
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781452276168

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Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime by Lawrence M. Salinger Pdf

Since the first edition of the Encyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime was produced in 2004, the number and severity of these crimes have risen to the level of calamity, so much so that many experts attribute the near-Depression of 2008 to white-collar malfeasance, namely crimes of greed and excess by bankers and financial institutions. Whether the perpetrators were prosecuted or not, white-collar and corporate crime came near to collapsing the U.S. economy. In the 7 years since the first edition was produced we have also seen the largest Ponzi scheme in history (Maddoff), an ecological disaster caused by British Petroleum and its subcontractors (Gulf Oil Spill), and U.S. Defense Department contractors operating like vigilantes in Iraq (Blackwater). White-collar criminals have been busy, and the Second Edition of this encyclopedia captures what has been going on in the news and behind the scenes with new articles and updates to past articles.

Author : Richard P. Conaboy,United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Commercial crimes
ISBN : OCLC:889398243

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Corporate Crime in America by Richard P. Conaboy,United States Sentencing Commission Pdf

Author : Samuel W. Buell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393247848

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Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age by Samuel W. Buell Pdf

From the lead prosecutor on the Enron investigation, an eye-opening examination of the explosion of American white-collar crime. If “corporations are people too,” why isn’t anyone in jail? A serious defect in a GM car causes accidents; Enron scams investors out of their money; banks bet on the housing market crash and win. In the race to maximize profits, corporations can behave in ways that are morally outrageous but technically legal. In Capital Offenses, Samuel Buell draws on the unique pairing of his expertise as a Duke University law professor and his personal experience leading the investigation into Enron—the biggest white-collar crime case in U.S. history—to present an in-depth examination of business crime today At the heart of it sits the limited liability corporation, simultaneously the bedrock of American prosperity and the reason that white-collar crime is difficult to prosecute—a brilliant legal innovation that, in its modern form, can seem impossible to regulate or even manage. By shielding employees from legal responsibility, the corporation encourages the risk-taking that drives economic growth. But its special legal status and its ever-expanding scale place daunting barriers in the way of federal and local investigators. Detailing the complex legal frameworks that govern both corporations and the people who carry out their missions, Buell shows that deciphering business crime is rarely black or white. In lucid, thought-provoking prose, he illuminates the depths of the legal issues at stake—delving into fraudulent practices like Ponzi schemes, bad accounting, insider trading, and the art of “loopholing”—showing how every major case and each problem of law further exposes the ambivalence and instability at the core of America’s relationship with its corporations. An expert in criminal law, Buell masterfully examines the limits of too permissive or overzealous prosecution of business crimes. Capital Offenses invites us to take a fresh look at our legal framework and learn how it can be used to effectively discipline corporations for wrongdoing, without dismantling the corporation.

Author : Marshall B. Clinard,Peter C. Yeager,Ruth Blackburn Clinard
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015000902489

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Corporate Crime by Marshall B. Clinard,Peter C. Yeager,Ruth Blackburn Clinard Pdf

"The very best single piece of research ever completed in the field of white collar crime. A mind-boggling accomplishment".--Dr. Gilbert Geis, past president American Society of Criminologists.

Author : Michael L. Benson,Sally S. Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134487578

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Understanding White-Collar Crime by Michael L. Benson,Sally S. Simpson Pdf

Unlike other books of its kind, Understanding White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective uses a coherent theoretical perspective in its coverage of white-collar crime. Using opportunity perspective, or the assumption that all crimes depend on offenders having some sort of opportunity to commit an offense, allows the authors to uncover the processes leading up to white-collar crimes and offer potential solutions to this rampant issue, without being reductive in their treatment of the topic. With this second edition, Benson and Simpson have greatly expanded their coverage to include new case studies, substantive materials, and an annotated appendix of online resources to make this a core book for courses on white-collar crime.

Author : Russell Mokhiber
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Commercial crimes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002536691

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Corporate Crime and Violence by Russell Mokhiber Pdf

This well-documented report on the corporate behavior that has an adverse impact on public health and environment provides an overview of the problems and offers solutions and reforms to make corporations more responsive to the public good.

Author : Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802082785

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Organized Crime and American Power by Michael Woodiwiss Pdf

Historisch overzicht van de samenhang en wederzijdse beïnvloeding van de georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de Verenigde Staten.

Author : John Minkes,Leonard Minkes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849208352

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Corporate and White Collar Crime by John Minkes,Leonard Minkes Pdf

`This timely collection contains contemporary case studies and critical analyses by leading writers in the study of white collar corporate crime. It makes an invaluable contribution to the ′criminology of the corporation′" - Professor Hazel Croall, Glasgow Caledonian University Corporate and White Collar Crime is an essential overview of this diverse subject area and encourages students to develop a broad understanding of the topic. Aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Business and Management Studies, the book will cross-over into many other disciplines including Law and Social Policy. "This is an innovative and multidisciplinary analysis of corporate and white collar crime that is both theoretically and empirically rich. The text serves as a poignant reminder why research involving the powerful must be a central part of criminological inquiry and why this book is essential reading." Professor Reece Walters, The Open University "Again and again, pension funds are pillaged, investors fleeced, commuters killed, workers maimed, and communities poisoned. Why is it that so few of these acts are defined as crimes, and why is it that, even when they are, prosecution is so rarely effective? Corporate Crime and White Collar Crime addresses these very questions through its rigorous, well-developed analysis and its wide ranging empirical focus - on Europe, North America, Asia and beyond. The book can help all of us to re-examine our understanding of the nature of crime and of criminals, and to reassess the costs as well as the benefits of our current economic, political and social order." Professor Frank Pearce, Queen′s University, Canada