Corporate crime refers to criminal practices by individuals that have the legal authority to speak for a corporation or company. These can include presidents, chief executive officers, managers, directors and chairman, sales people, agents or anyone within a company that has authority to act on behalf of the firm. This book provides a detailed account of the nature, causes and consequences of various forms of corporate crimes. It assesses the potential for the legal control of corporate criminality as informed by insight gleaned from an understanding of why such Corporate crimes features on various undergraduate and postgraduate criminology and criminal justice courses across the country, which makes this comprehensive book highly appropriate for law and criminology students. It is also an insightful text appropriate for a wider academic audience an discusses the legal, sociological and criminological dimensions of corporate crime in detail.
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