Corporations, Crime and Accountability [Hardcover]

This book asks why corporations are rarely held accountable for corporate crime and proposes solutions to the problem.Explaining why accountability for corporate crime is rarely imposed under the present law, this text proposes solutions that would help to extend responsibility to a wide range of actors. It develops an Accountability Model under which the courts and corporations work together to achieve accountability across a broad front.Explaining why accountability for corporate crime is rarely imposed under the present law, this text proposes solutions that would help to extend responsibility to a wide range of actors. It develops an Accountability Model under which the courts and corporations work together to achieve accountability across a broad front.This book explains why accountability for corporate crime is rarely imposed under the present law, and proposes solutions that would help to extend responsibility to a wide range of actors. The authors develop an Accountability Model under which the courts and corporations work together by having the law harness the internal disciplinary systems of organizations. In this way accountability would be achieved across a much broader front than would otherwise be possible.Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Crime, responsibility and corporate society; 2. Individualism; 3. Enterprise liability; 4. Organisation theory perspectives; 5. Making the buck stop; 6. Assessing the accountability model; 7. The possibility of responsibility for corporate crime; Bibliography of cited works; Index.