1st Edition
Corporate Crime The Firm as Victim and Offender
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 Diana 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
Biography
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.
