Rethinking Corporate Crime

This work provides a detailed critique of the current criminal law system as it applies to corporate wrongdoing.

James Gobert (Author), Maurice Punch (Author)

9780521606073, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 March 2003

404 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.54 kg

This unique work provides a detailed critique of the current criminal law system as it applies to corporate wrongdoing. It assesses the potential for the legal control of corporate criminality as informed by insights gleaned from an understanding of why such crimes occur. The authors also advance the theory that such crimes should be viewed as a failure by the company to manage its business operations and a failure to have an effective risk management system in place. Corporate crime features on various undergraduate and postgraduate criminology and criminal justice courses across the country, which makes this specialist text highly appropriate for law and criminology students. It is also an insightful text appropriate for a wider academic audience and discusses the legal, sociological and criminological dimensions of corporate crime in detail. Corporate criminal responsibility is a very contemporary topic, covered in fine detail within this work.

Preface
Table of statutes
List of cases
1. Understanding the nature and causes of corporate crime
2. Corporate criminality I: imputed liability
3. Corporate criminality II: organisational fault
4. Corporate criminality III: endangerment offences
5. Corporate crime in an era of globalisation
6. When a company is on trial: rules of evidence and procedure
7. Sentencing and sanctions
8. Individual liability
9. Policing companies: dilemmas of regulation
10. Self-regulation and the socially responsible company
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Criminal law & procedure [LNF], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA], Crime & criminology [JKV]