Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control

Klappentext This book provides a critical assessment of strategies to control the illegal conduct of corporations. Zusammenfassung Why do corporations comply with the law? When companies violate the law! what kinds of interventions are most apt to return them to compliant status? Simpson's aim is to examine whether a shift towards criminal law with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization will be a successful crime control strategy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Criminalizing the corporate control process; 2. Deterrence in review; 3. Assessing the failure of corporate deterrence; 4. Corporate deterrence and civil justice; 5. Deterrence and regulatory justice; 6. Alternatives to criminalization: cooperative models of corporate compliance; 7. Why comply? Criminalization versus cooperation: an empirical test; 8. Shaping the contours of control.

Product details

• Authors: Simpson Sally S., Sally S. Simpson, Sally S. (University of Maryland Simpson
• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2002
• EAN: 9780521589338
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58933-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology