Corporate Crime

This volume speaks to the fundamental issues inherent in trying to understand the who-what-where-and-whys of corporate crime. Only in addressing these larger issues does it become possible to begin to integrate the study of corporate crime into the larger criminological theory literature.

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William S. Laufer is the Aresty Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Sociology, and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Co-Director of the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School, the co-sponsor of a wide range of business ethics research projects from the CPA-Zicklin Index for Corporate Accountability to the work of the Amazon Research Center. Prof. Laufer studies corporate criminal liability, prosecution, and punishment.

Miranda A. Galvin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include white-collar crime, criminal sentencing, prosecution, and policy impacts. She earned her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, receiving the Charles A. Caramello Award for Distinguished Dissertation for her work on the federal case processing of white-collar crime. She later received the 2020 Early Career Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime.

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Contributors

Preface

Part I. Setting the Stage: Crime and Theories of the Firm

1. Moral Responsibility and Theories of the Firms

Eric W. Orts

2. Corporate Criminal Liability and the Purposes of Punishment

Robert C. Hughes

3. Some Reflections on the "Corporate Offender" in Criminal Law

William S. Laufer and Susana Aires de Sousa

Part II. Corporate Victimization

4. What Do We Owe the Victims of Corporate Crime?

Mihailis E. Diamantis

5. Corporate Crime, Capture, and the Opioid Crisis

Miranda A. Galvin

6. Corporate Crime Victimization in the Gambling Industry

Melissa Rorie and Matthew P. West

7. Weaving Webs of Compliance: Integrating Vertical and Horizontal Prevention of Corporate Involvement in Human Rights Violations

Wim Huisman and Susanne Karstedt

Part III. Corporate Offending

8. Applying the Opportunity Theory to Corporate Offending and Victimization

Michael L. Benson and D*iana Sun*

9. Corporate Wrongdoing and Shareholders

Vikramaditya S. Khanna

10. Patterns of Corporate Life-Course Offending

Sally S. Simpson, M. Cristina Layana, and Miranda A. Galvin

11. Structure, Agency, and the Role of the State in Corporate Crime: Negotiating Current and Contemporary Challenges to Human Safety

Kenneth Sebastian Leon

Afterword: Corporate Criminal Justice

Miranda A. Galvin and William S. Laufer