This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines.
There has long been awareness of systemic harms inflicted by corporations, but this awareness has rarely led to any effective legal means to prevent and/or respond adequately to them. Lawyers and legal theorists appear to be stuck asking the same questions, and giving the same ineffective answers. Part of the problem, this book maintains, is the relative lack of theoretical interrogation into the nature of corporations as responsible, moral agents. To break this stasis, this book draws upon philosophies of wickedness in order to ask whether or not corporations are, or can be, evil. With contributions from a range of different disciplines, including law, cultural theory, theology, and philosophy, it offers a novel account of how and why corporate wrongs are caused, whilst exploring the extent to which the legal system itself facilitates such wrongdoing.
The book is targeted at a broad international audience with research interests in corporate crime. This will be of particular interest to those within the legal discipline including corporate law, criminal law, corporate crime and law and humanities scholars.
Introduction
Penny Crofts
Chapter 1 Can capitalism ever be other than evil?
James Martel
Chapter 2 Can a corporation be evil?
Luke Russell
Chapter 3 Corporate Vice
Stephanie Collins
Chapter 4 Ecocide, Evil and the Corporation
Joanna Kyriakakis
Chapter 5 Prescription Medicine, Adverse Effects and Economies of Death
Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore
Chapter 6 The Corporate Evil of Unsafe Products: Strict liability, negligence and the expressive force of law
Hui Chia and Jeannie Paterson
Chapter 7 Data Brokers: Trading on Trust
Olivia Dixon
Part 3: A mechanics of corporate harms
Chapter 8 Evil Corporations in Horror Fiction
Penny Crofts
Chapter 9 Corporate Office, Corporate Irresponsibility and the Constitutive Vicariousness of Corporate Power
Timothy D Peters
Chapter 10 Blindness without a Will: The Dilemma of Corporate Collective Knowledge and Intention in Succession
Lisa Siraganian
Chapter 11 Corporate misuse of legal professional privilege: concealing and constituting crimes
Liz Campbell
Chapter 12 The Monster Within: Representing Corporate Evil
Mihailis E. Diamantis
Chapter 13 Corporations as Haunted Entities: Conceptualising Responsibility for Historical Harm
Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk
Chapter 14 Corporate evil: a story of systems and silences
Elise Bant
Chapter 15 Redeeming Corporations: Designing legal interventions for complex adaptive systems
Rebecca Wallis and Simon Bronitt
Chapter 16 ‘Corporate Culture’ is The Problem, but Can it be Regulated?
Vicky Comino
Biography
Penny Crofts is Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
