Corporate crime, law, and social control / Sally S. Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Sally S.

Series:

Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)

Cambridge studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Corporations.

Commercial crimes.

Commercial crimes--Prevention.

Physical Description:

xi, 180 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book provides a critical assessment of strategies to control the illegal conduct of corporations.

Contents:

1 Criminalizing the Corporate Control Process 1

Criminalization of Corporate Crime in the Post-Watergate Era 10

The Facts of Criminalization 16

2 Deterrence in Review 22

Rationality and Crime 22

Empirical Support for Deterrence 26

3 Assessing the Failure of Corporate Deterrence and Criminal Justice 45

Criminal Law and the Corporation 45

Criminal Law and Corporate Managers 56

4 Corporate Deterrence and Civil Justice 61

Civil Law and Corporate Offending 61

Can Civil Law Deter Corporate Crime? 73

5 Corporate Deterrence and Regulatory Justice 79

Business Regulation in the United States 80

The Deterrent Capacity of Administrative Law 84

Punishment or Persuasion 94

6 Cooperative Models of Corporate Compliance: Alternatives to Criminalization 98

Enforced Self-Regulation 100

Informal Social Control 106

Enforcement Pyramid 112

Tit-for-Tat Regulatory Philosophy 112

7 Criminalization versus Cooperation: An Empirical Test 116

8 Shaping the Contours of Control 153

The Failure of "Strict" Deterrence 153

Policy Challenges 155

Future Directions for Compliance Research 160.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0521580838

0521589339

OCLC:

46576255