Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control [Hardcover]

This book provides a critical assessment of strategies to control the illegal conduct of corporations.Why do corporations comply with the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to return them to compliant status? The purpose of this book is to examine whether a shift toward the use of criminal law with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization will be a successful crime control strategy. The author reviews whether current legal systems based in criminal, civil, and regulatory law deter corporate crime. She concludes that strict criminalization models that rely on punishments will not yield sufficiently high levels of compliance.Why do corporations comply with the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to return them to compliant status? The purpose of this book is to examine whether a shift toward the use of criminal law with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization will be a successful crime control strategy. The author reviews whether current legal systems based in criminal, civil, and regulatory law deter corporate crime. She concludes that strict criminalization models that rely on punishments will not yield sufficiently high levels of compliance.Why do corporations comply with the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to return them to compliant status? The purpose of this book is to examine whether a shift toward the use of criminal law with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization will be a successful crime control strategy. The author reviews whether current legal systems based in criminal, civil, and regulatory law deter corporate crime. She concludes that strict criminalization models that rely on punishments will not yield sufficiently high levels of compliance.1. Criminalizing the corporate control process; 2. Deterrence in review; 3. Assessing the failure of corporate deterrence; 4. Corporate deterrence lã7