Corporate Crime (Law and Society) - Softcover

Yeager, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412804930 ISBN 13: 9781412804936

Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Corporate Crime, originally published in 1980, is the first and still the only comprehensive study of corporate law violations by our largest corporations. The book laid the groundwork for analyses of important aspects of corporate behavior. It defined corporate crime and found ways of locating corporate violations from various sources. It even drew up measures of the seriousness of crimes. Much of this book still applies today to the corporate world and its illegal behavior.

A new introduction, "Corporate Crime: Yesterday and Today--A Comparison," prepared for this edition by coauthor Marshall B. Clinard, discusses the development of a criminological interest in corporate crime, explains the nature of corporate crime, and analyzes a number of issues involved in its study. Among the issues tackled are whether today's corporate crime is greater, more serious, and more complex; accounting fraud and its crucial role in hiding corporate crime; the pharmaceuticals, the industry with the most corporate violations; explanations of corporate crime in terms of economic factors, corporate culture, and the role of top executives; and new laws to control corporate crime and alternative approaches.

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"Corporate Crime: Yesterday and Today--A Comparison,"

"Originally published in 1980, provides a comprehensive treatment of the violations of law of almost six hundred of the largets U.S. corporations during 1975 and 1976, including the five hundred top industrials, and explains the economic difficulties i ntrying to control corporate crime. Covers the cost of corporate crime; corporate crime in other countries; the growth and development of the corporation; corporations as large-scale, complex organizations and how this relates to their illegal behavior; the federal antitrust policy and politics; political contributions, bribery, and foreign payoffs; illegalities and the accounting profession; whether corporations are socially responsible; the failure of business ethics; ethical problems within the oil, auto, and pharmaceutical industries; corporate executives and criminal liability; and controlling corporate crime. A new introduction by Clinard provides a comparative perspective on corporate crime twenty-five years after the original publication of the book."--Journal of Economic Literature

"Originally published in 1980, provides a comprehensive treatment of the violations of law of almost six hundred of the largets U.S. corporations during 1975 and 1976, including the five hundred top industrials, and explains the economic difficulties i ntrying to control corporate crime. Covers the cost of corporate crime; corporate crime in other countries; the growth and development of the corporation; corporations as large-scale, complex organizations and how this relates to their illegal behavior; the federal antitrust policy and politics; political contributions, bribery, and foreign payoffs; illegalities and the accounting profession; whether corporations are socially responsible; the failure of business ethics; ethical problems within the oil, auto, and pharmaceutical industries; corporate executives and criminal liability; and controlling corporate crime. A new introduction by Clinard provides a comparative perspective on corporate crime twenty-five years after the original publication of the book."

--Journal of Economic Literature

Gilbert Geis, past president, American Society of Criminology, called Corporate Crime "[t]he very best single piece of research ever completed in the field of white collar crime. A mind-boggling accomplishment," while the American Journal of Criminal Law commented, "[the authors'] analysis of this situation and its ramifications on the public deserves careful consideration by all those interested in the role of corporations in the future of this nation and the world."

"Originally published in 1980, provides a comprehensive treatment of the violations of law of almost six hundred of the largets U.S. corporations during 1975 and 1976, including the five hundred top industrials, and explains the economic difficulties i ntrying to control corporate crime. Covers the cost of corporate crime; corporate crime in other countries; the growth and development of the corporation; corporations as large-scale, complex organizations and how this relates to their illegal behavior; the federal antitrust policy and politics; political contributions, bribery, and foreign payoffs; illegalities and the accounting profession; whether corporations are socially responsible; the failure of business ethics; ethical problems within the oil, auto, and pharmaceutical industries; corporate executives and criminal liability; and controlling corporate crime. A new introduction by Clinard provides a comparative perspective on corporate crime twenty-five years after the original publication of the book."

--Journal of Economic Literature

Gilbert Geis, past president, American Society of Criminology, called Corporate Crime "[t]he very best single piece of research ever completed in the field of white collar crime. A mind-boggling accomplishment," while the American Journal of Criminal Law commented, "[the authors'] analysis of this situation and its ramifications on the public deserves careful consideration by all those interested in the role of corporations in the future of this nation and the world."

-Originally published in 1980, provides a comprehensive treatment of the violations of law of almost six hundred of the largets U.S. corporations during 1975 and 1976, including the five hundred top industrials, and explains the economic difficulties i ntrying to control corporate crime. Covers the cost of corporate crime; corporate crime in other countries; the growth and development of the corporation; corporations as large-scale, complex organizations and how this relates to their illegal behavior; the federal antitrust policy and politics; political contributions, bribery, and foreign payoffs; illegalities and the accounting profession; whether corporations are socially responsible; the failure of business ethics; ethical problems within the oil, auto, and pharmaceutical industries; corporate executives and criminal liability; and controlling corporate crime. A new introduction by Clinard provides a comparative perspective on corporate crime twenty-five years after the original publication of the book.-

--Journal of Economic Literature

Gilbert Geis, past president, American Society of Criminology, called Corporate Crime -[t]he very best single piece of research ever completed in the field of white collar crime. A mind-boggling accomplishment,- while the American Journal of Criminal Law commented, -[the authors'] analysis of this situation and its ramifications on the public deserves careful consideration by all those interested in the role of corporations in the future of this nation and the world.-

About the Author:

Marshall B. Clinard, emeritus professor of sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is widely known for his publications in the fields of criminology and deviant behavior, including four books on corporate crime. Peter C. Yeager, professor of sociology at Boston University, is the author of The Limits of the Law: The Public Regulation of Private Pollution.

About this edition

• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1412804930
• ISBN 13: 9781412804936
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436