Why Not Jail?: Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, And Government Inaction - Softcover

Steinzor, Rena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110763394X ISBN 13: 9781107633940

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment.

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About the Author

Rena Steinzor is a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law. She is the president of the Center for Progressive Reform (www.progressivereform.org), a think tank composed of sixty working academics from universities across the country that is a nationally recognized source of research and opinion on public health, worker and consumer safety, and the environment. Steinzor's publications include Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt our Kids (2007), The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public: Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment (with Sidney Shapiro, 2010) and Rescuing Science from Politics (co-edited with Wendy Wagner, 2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110763394X
• ISBN 13: 9781107633940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294