Corporate Crime (Law and Society)

Yeager, Peter

ISBN 10: 1138521299 ISBN 13: 9781138521292

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

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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Peter Yeager

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138521299
• ISBN 13: 9781138521292
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436