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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This book analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment. Written in accessible and jargon-free language! Why Not Jail? recommends innovative interpretations of existing laws to elevate the prosecution of white-collar crime at the federal and state levels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Status Quo: 1. Regulatory dysfunction; 2. White-collar crime today; 3. Cons and pros; Part II. The Lessons of Catastrophe: 4. Occupational disasters; 5. Environmental disaster; 6. Public health; Part III. Solutions: 7. A guilty mind; 8. Deferred prosecution agreements.
