Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds - The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability

Informationen zum Autor William S. Laufer is director of the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research and the Julian Aresty Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania! where he is also professor of legal studies and business ethics! sociology! and criminology. Klappentext We live in an era defined by corporate greed and malfeasance - one in which unprecedented accounting frauds and failures of compliance run rampant. This work argues that even with legal reforms! corporate criminal law continues to be ineffective. Zusammenfassung We live in an era defined by corporate greed and malfeasance - one in which unprecedented accounting frauds and failures of compliance run rampant. This work argues that even with legal reforms! corporate criminal law continues to be ineffective.

Product details

• Authors: William S. Laufer, LAUFER WILLIAM S, Laufer William S.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9780226470412
• ISBN: 978-0-226-47041-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, LAW / Corporate, LAW / Torts, United States of America, USA, Company law, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts