Corporate crime

by Shelley Horan

• 287 Want to read
• 28 Currently reading

Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Professional in Haywards Heath, West Sussex .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Commercial crimes

---

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Statement	by Shelley Horan ; consultant editor, Shane Murphy
Classifications
LC Classifications	KDK1786 .H67 2011
The Physical Object
Pagination	clxxxiv, 1672 p. ;
Number of Pages	1672
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL24886578M
ISBN 10	1847665527
ISBN 10	9781847665522
LC Control Number	2011287026
OCLC/WorldCa	642289033

---

  Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Corporate Crime Books online. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Corporate crime has become politically sensitive in some countries. In the United Kingdom, for example, following wider publicity of fatal accidents on the rail network and at sea, the term is commonly used in reference to corporate manslaughter and to involve a more general discussion about the technological hazards posed by business enterprises (see Wells: ).

The emergence of corporate crime -- 3. Mapping and measuring the extent of corporate crime -- 4. Counting and costing corporate crime -- 5. Crime, law and order agendas: the (in)visibility of corporate crime -- 6. Accounting for corporate crime: corporations and pathology -- 7. Accounting for corporate crime: corporations and political economy.   State-corporate crime is defined as criminal acts that occur when one or more institutions of political governance pursue a goal in direct cooperation with one or more institutions of economic production and distribution. This concept has been advanced to examine how corporations and governments intersect to produce social harm. The complexity of state-corporate crime arises from Author: Adam Ghazi-Tehrani. A self-consciously ""scholarly"" study by two sociology professors (who find it necessary to footnote the statement ""the economic drive for profit, power and productivity is not criminal in itself"") that aims to supplant Edwin Sutherland's White Collar Crime as the most comprehensive work on illegal and unethical corporate behavior, and largely succeeds in spite of itself.

White-collar crime is difficult to identify. It leaves little physical evidence and no easily identifiable victim. In order to detect white-collar crime, authorities must have knowledge of high finance to discover that embezzlement, for example, has taken place. This book argues that there is a strong normative argument for using the criminal law as a primary response to corporate crime. In practice, however, corporate crimes are rarely dealt with through criminal sanctioning mechanisms. 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 : Frank Pearce.