NCJ Number
140478
Date Published
1992
Length
172 pages
Annotation
This volume analyzes many major cases of corporate crime and violence, showing how these abuses occur, the advantages and disadvantages of criminal prosecution, and how corporate violence might be avoided.
Abstract
The harm includes increases in cancer rates as a result of pollutants, injuries and deaths resulting from unsafe work environments, suffering and death among laboratory animals used in experiments testing consumer projects, and injuries and deaths to consumers as a result of known dangerous consumer goods. The text examines the legal issues that arise in relation to specific crimes, especially those involving worker health and safety. It also examines the causes of corporate crimes, the problems encountered in trying to control and prosecute these crimes, and ways in which the legal system can structure risks to reduce the amount of corporate crime occurring in our society. Index and 198 references