1st Edition

Corporate Harms A Horror Story

By Penny Crofts, Honni van Rijswijk Copyright 2026
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

This book argues that corporate harms can and should be conceptualised as horrific because they are novel forms of damage on an unprecedented scale. There is long-term recognition of widespread, systemic harms caused by corporations and the relative dearth of response by the criminal legal system. This book argues that the harms caused by corporations generate a category crisis for criminal... Read more

1. The Horror of Corporate Harms 2. The Horror of Magnitude: Mass Victimisation  3. Horror, Spatial Transgression, and the Legal Fictions of Corporate Order 4. The Horror of Corporate Temporality 5. Extreme, Imaginative and Grotesque Harms 6. The Horror of How Harms are Inflicted 7. The Horror of the Failure of Authority 8. Horror or Crime Story?

Biography

Penny Crofts, Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney.

Honni van Rijswijk, Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney.