Corporate Corruption: The Abuse of Power

by Marshall B. Clinard

Book Overview

In recent years, the media have been full of stories about ethical decline. Illegal dealings have been uncovered in the banking and savings and loan industries as well as the highest levels of Congress and government administration. Even television evangelism has been seriously tarnished by scandal. Corporate Corruption is the first wide ranging book to turn the spotlight on the unethical and illegal behavior of America's giant corporations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275934853
• ISBN13: 9780275934859
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

It is Interesting How Time Seasons a Work

Perhaps controversial in its day, Clinard's work has become foundational in university criminology classes. If you want to study corporate crime, you need to understand Clinard. In this book Clinard breaks four industries down into six main themes: 1. Rank of the industry in corporate crime (hint: automobile -> oil -> drugmaking -> defense) <br />2. common types of crime within the industry <br />3. stories of classic cases <br />4. a study of the industry's deviant practices <br />5. effects of these crimes <br />6. conclusion <br /> <br />

Unsettling Essential Information

This is a disturbing, but eye opening book. I knew there has been much corporate crime, but I was not aware of the extent of it nor of the many forms it takes. With the rapidly growing power and wealth of corporations in the world today, public awareness of this large scale hanky panky is essentail. All responsible citizens of modern democracies should be aware of what is so well presented in this book.