- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index
Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- Chapter:
- (p.407) Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- Source:
- The American Illness
- Author(s):
Jeffrey S. Parker
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses corporate crime and overcriminalization. It first discusses the concept of corporate crime and its historical background. Corporate crimes include entity criminal liability, corporate agent criminal liability, and white-collar crime. Next, it discusses the recent expansion of corporate crime and enforcement. This is followed by criminalization and its factors. The failure of American public morality is also examined.
Keywords: corporate crime, overcriminalization, entity criminal liability, corporate agent criminal liability, white-collar crime, enforcement, public morality, corporate liability, criminalization
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- The Rule of Law in America
- An Exceptional Nation?
- Are Americans More Litigious?
- Lawyers as Spam
- Regulation and Litigation
- Does Product Liability Law Make Us Safer?
- The American Illness and Comparative Civil Procedure
- The Proportionality Principle and the Amount In Controversy
- The Allocation of Discovery Costs and the Foundations of Modern Procedure
- Does Increased Litigation Increase Justice in a Second-Best World?
- A Tamer Tort Law
- The Expansion of Modern U.S. Tort Law and Its Excesses
- Regulation, Taxation, and Litigation
- An English Lawyer Looks at American Contract Law
- Text versus Context
- Exit and the American Illness
- The Dramatic Rise of Consumer Protection Law
- How American Corporate and Securities Law Drives Business Offshore
- Corporate Crime, Overcriminalization, and the Failure of American Public Morality
- The Legacy of Progressive Thought
- Overtaking
- The Rule of Law and China
- Reversing
- Contributors
- Index