Corporate Crime - The Firm As Victim and Offender

This volume speaks to the fundamental issues inherent in trying to understand the who-what-where-and-whys of corporate crime. Only in addressing these larger issues does it become possible to begin to integrate the study of corporate crime into the larger criminological theory literature.

List of contents

Preface (editors)
Part I. Setting the Stage: Crime and Theories of the Firm
1. Moral Responsibility and Theories of the Firms
Eric Orts
2. Corporate Criminal Liability and the Purposes of Punishment
Robert Hughes
3. Some Reflections on the "Corporate Offender" in Criminal Law
William S. Laufer & Susana Aires de Sousa
Part II. Corporate Victimization
4. What Do We Owe Victims of Corporate Crime?
Mihailis Diamantis
5. Corporate Crime, Capture, and the Opioid Crisis
Miranda A. Galvin
6. Corporate Crime Victimization in the Gambling Industry
Melissa Rorie & Matthew West
7. Weaving webs of compliance: Integrating vertical and horizontal prevention of corporate involvement in human rights violations
Wim Huisman & Susanne Karstedt
Part III. Corporate Offending
8. Applying Opportunity Theory to Corporate Offending and Victimization
Michael L. Benson & Diana Sun
9. Corporate Wrongdoing and Shareholders
Vic Khanna
10. Patterns of Corporate Life Course Offending
Sally S. Simpson, Cristina Layana & Miranda A. Galvin
11. Structure, Agency, and the Role of the State in Corporate Crime: Negotiating Current and Contemporary Challenges to Human Safety
Kenneth Sebastian Leon
Afterword: Corporate Criminal Justice (editors)

About the author

William S. Laufer is the Aresty Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Co-Director of the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, the co-sponsor of a wide range of business ethics research projects from the CPA-Zicklin Index for Corporate Accountability to the work of the Amazon Research Center. Prof. Laufer studies corporate criminal liability, prosecution, and punishment.
Miranda A. Galvin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include white-collar crime, criminal sentencing, prosecution, and policy impacts. She earned her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, receiving the Charles A. Caramello Award for Distinguished Dissertation for her work on the federal case processing of white-collar crime.

Product details

• Authors: William S. Galvin Laufer
• Assisted by: Miranda A. Galvin (Editor), Laufer William S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.08.2025
• EAN: 9780367536664
• ISBN: 978-0-367-53666-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Advances in Criminological Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Economics, Business and Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance / General, Business & management, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Legal aspects of criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Law, Company law, Criminology: legal aspects, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Banking law, Social law and Medical law