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Corporate crime, law, and social control
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ISBN: 0521589339 0521580838 9786612486760 0511673744 0511674937 0511672950 0511670400 0511606281 1282486764 0511671687 9780511674938 1107113725 9780511671685 9780511606281 9780521589338 9780521580830 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Why do corporations obey the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to correct their behavior and return them to compliant status? In this book Sally Simpson examines whether the shift towards the use of criminal law, with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization, is an effective strategy for controlling illegal corporate behavior. She concludes that strict criminalization models will not yield sufficiently high levels of compliance. Empirical data suggest that in most cases cooperative models work best with most corporate offenders. Because some corporate managers, however, respond primarily to instrumental concerns, Simpson argues that compliance should also be buttressed by punitive strategies. Her review and application of the relevant empirical literature on corporate crime and compliance combined with her judicious examination of theory and approaches, make a valuable new contribution to the literature on white-collar crime and deterrence and criminal behavior more generally.


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Of crime & criminality : the use of theory in everyday life
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ISBN: 1452232237 1452264813 9781452264813 Year: 2000 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press,

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This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behaviour, and how they are similar to and different from one another.

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