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Corporate Crime, originally published in 1980, is the first and still the only comprehensive study of corporate law violations by our largest corporations. The book laid the groundwork for analyses of important aspects of corporate behavior. It defined corporate crime and found ways of locating corporate violations from various sources. It even drew up measures of the seriousness of crimes. Much of this book still applies today to the corporate world and its illegal behavior.A new introduction, "Corporate Crime: Yesterday and Today--A Comparison," prepared for this edition by coauthor Marshall B. Clinard, discusses the development of a criminological interest in corporate crime, explains the...
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An important classic, especially useful for courses in criminal behavior and personality, this text begins with a discussion of the construction of types of crime and then formulates and utilizes a typology of criminal behavior systems.
Safety violations, bribes, kickbacks, and price-fixing -- these are some of the crimes that corporations indulge in as a matter of covert policy. What does middle management do when confronted with the knowledge that their superiors are breaking the law or violating ethics? What makes some corporations behave more ethically than others? Marshall Clinard interviewed retired middle managers of the Fortune 500 corporations to discover the nature of corporate crime and ethics, and the reaction of middle managers to it. How do middle managers account for differences in corporate behaviour? What pressures are brought to bear to keep them silent. What are their own personal ethics when confronted with corporate misdeeds? What kinds of violations would they be willing to report? When would they remain silent? The role of upper level management and the role government regulations play in discouraging and encouraging violations is also discussed. The result is a fascinating portrait of a closed and silent process of violation, corporate dynamics and personal, moral reaction.
Includes the results of a study of crime in Uganda and the capital, Kampala, 1968-1969.
In recent years, the media have been full of stories about ethical decline. Illegal dealings have been uncovered in the banking and savings and loan industries as well as the highest levels of Congress and government administration. Even television evangelism has been seriously tarnished by scandal. Corporate Corruption is the first wide ranging book to turn the spotlight on the unethical and illegal behavior of America's giant corporations and their executives: the prestigious Fortune 500. While avoiding the undignified zealotry of tabloid muck-raking, this well-researched volume explores corporate abuse and examines the disparity between the facts of corporate misconduct and the glowing im...
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