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AuthorHartley, Richard D.TitleCorporate crime : a reference handbook / Richard D. Hartley.PublishedSanta Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.FormatBook
Descriptionxiv, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
SeriesContemporary world issues
LinkPublisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0808/2007048174-d.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-234) and index.
Contents1 BACKGROUND AND HISTORY -- Corporate and white collar crime defined -- Corporate crime typologies -- History of corporate entities and corporate offending -- The corporation today -- Laws and legal origins of corporate crime -- Recent legislation: (Sarbanes Oxley Act, Criminal Antitrust Penalty Enhancement and reform Act) -- Types of corporate crime (Fraud, tax evasion and economic exploitation, Price fixing, price gouging and false advertising, Corporate theft, exploitation and unfair labor practices) -- Violent corporate offenses ( Unsafe environmental practices, Unsafe consumer products, Unsafe working conditions) -- Universities and colleges as corporate offenders -- Importance of studying corporate and white collar crime -- 2 PROBLEMS, CONTROVERSIES AND SOLUTIONS -- Types of corporate crime and definitional problems -- Should corporations be held socially responsible? -- Prosecution of corporations -- Problems with criminal justice system control -- Government officials and politicians as corporate offenders -- Punishment of corporate crime (Remedies for harm done, Determining fines, Probationary sentences) -- Deferred prosecutions -- Measuring corporate crime
-- Sources of data (Federal sources, State and municipal sources) -- Detecting and controlling corporate crime -- Improving current methods -- 3 WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVE -- Corporate offending outside the United States --
Globalization and its effects on corporate offending worldwide -- The extent of corporate offending in other countries -- Political corruption and corporate crime -- Corporate offending in services, development and post conflict construction -- corporate crime and reconstruction in the wake of conflict -- Rebuilding Iraq -- Access to health care worldwide (corporate crime and HIV/AIDS, Corporate crime in Mexico’s public health system, Health care reform: Colombia versus Venezuela, Recommendations for the health sector) -- What in the world can be done? -- Laws and legislation against corporate offending around the world -- (Inter American Convention against Corruption, The Global Organization of Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPC), United Nations Convention against Corruption, United Nations Global Compact, Other resources in the global fight against corruption) -- Detecting and controlling corporate crime worldwide -- Prosecution of corporations in other countries -- Punishment of corporations worldwide -- 4 CHRONOLOGY --
5 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES (Henry Clayton, Marshall B. Clinard, Bernard Ebbers, Andrew Fastow, Alberto Fujimori, Gilbert Geis, L. Dennis Kozlowski, Kenneth Lay, Patrick Leahy, Ferdinand Marcos, Stephanie A. Martz, Paul J. McNulty, Robert F. Meier, Michael Milken, Slobodan Milosevic, Ralph Nader, Michael Oxley, Henry N. Pontell, John Rigas, Paul Sarbanes, Sally s. Simpson, Jeffrey K. Skilling, Adam Smith, Arlen J. Specter, Eliot Spitzer, Nadine Strossen, Mohammed Suharto, Edwin H. Sutherland, Larry D. Thompson, Gary Winnick, Peter C. Yeager) -- 6 DATA AND DOCUMENTS -- Facts and statistics on corporate crime -- Government documents and reports -- Executive Order 13271, Legislation pertaining to corporate offending (The Sherman antitrust Act of 1890, The Clayton antitrust Act -- of 1914, The Federal Trade commission Act of 1914, The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002) -- Quotes -- Other relevant documents -- 7 DIRECTORY OF ORGANIZATIONS -- 8 RESOURCES -- Print resources (Books, Journal articles, Dissertations, Magazines and newsletters, Government documents and agency publications) -- Nonprint resources (Videos, Web sites).
ISBN9781598840858 (alk. paper)1598840851 (alk. paper)9781598840865 (ebook)159884086X (ebook)SubjectWhite collar crimes.
Commercial crimes.
Corporations -- Corrupt practices.

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