Evil Corporations - Law, Culpability and Regulation

This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines.

List of contents

Introduction Penny Crofts 1 Can capitalism ever be other than evil? James Martel 2 Can a corporation be evil? Luke Russell 3 Corporate Vice Stephanie Collins 4 Ecocide, Evil and the Corporation Joanna Kyriakakis 5 Prescription Medicine, Adverse Effects and Economies of Death Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore 6 The Corporate Evil of Unsafe Products: Strict liability, negligence and the expressive force of law Hui Chia and Jeannie Paterson 7 Data Brokers: Trading on Trust Olivia Dixon 8 Evil Corporations in Horror Fiction Penny Crofts 9 Corporate Office, Corporate Irresponsibility and the Constitutive Vicariousness of Corporate Power Timothy D Peters 10 Blindness without a Will: The Dilemma of Corporate Collective Knowledge and Intention in Succession Lisa Siraganian 11 Corporate misuse of legal professional privilege: concealing and constituting crimes Liz Campbell 12 The Monster Within: Representing Corporate Evil Mihailis E. Diamantis 13 Corporations as Haunted Entities: Conceptualising Responsibility for Historical Harm Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk 14 Corporate evil: a story of systems and silences Elise Bant 15 Redeeming Corporations: Designing legal interventions for complex adaptive systems Rebecca Wallis and Simon Bronitt 16 'Corporate Culture' is The Problem, but Can it be Regulated? Vicky Comino

About the author

Penny Crofts is Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Summary

This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines.

Product details

• Authors: Penny Crofts
• Assisted by: Penny Crofts (Editor), Crofts Penny (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032513126
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3251312-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, LAW / General, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Corporate, PHILOSOPHY / Good & Evil, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Sales & marketing, Ethics and moral philosophy, Legal aspects of criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Company law, Sales and marketing, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Criminology: legal aspects, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law