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Corporate Crime Corporate Violence, 3rd edition

By Michael J. Lynch.

A revised and extended edition of the popular Crimes Against Health and Safety, this classic dissects the popular myths promoted by traditional criminology, uncovers who the real criminals are, and the extent of their dreadful crimes. The authors have written a new Introduction specially for this Kindle edition. CONTENTS: 1.Quiet Violence. 2.Corporate Crime: Definition and History. 3.Calling a Crime a Crime. 4.Conventional Laws for Unconventional Crimes. 5.Regulating Health and Safety. 6.Green Criminology: Corporate Violence and the Environment. 7.Explaining Corporate Violence. 9.Restructuring Risk Decision-making.References.

RECOMMENDED: If you're fed up with white collar crime, corporate arrogance and greed, then this book is for you. Makes a provocative text for upper division undergraduate courses on the Nature of Crime and its Control. Never fails to stimulate animated discussion in graduate classes.

NY. Harrow and Heston Publishers. 2014. 212p.