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	Center for Corporate Policy: Corporate Crime and Abuse
		The definition is vague enough to incorporate certain types of corporate crime as well as welfare fraud, thus persuading groups across the political spectrum that it was focused on the most important types of crime.
		Rates of White-collar crime are tracked by PWC Global (e.g., see their 2005 report), which reported a rise in fraud between 2003 and 2005.
		A publicly-accessible on-line corporate crime database would assist prosecutors, legislators, judges and journalists in their efforts to expose and control corporate crime and identify criminogenic corporations and recidivist lawbreakers.
	www.corporatepolicy.org /issues/crimedata.htm (1813 words)

	Corporate Predators by Mokhiber and Weissman
		Corporate crime explodes, but the academic study of corporate crime vanishes.
		Corporate firms lobbying to cripple the Superfund law outnumber environmental groups seeking to defend it by 30 to one.
		Wealth disparity, megamergers and the resulting consolidation of corporate power, commercialism run amok, rampant corporate crime, death without justice, pollution, cancer and an unrelenting attack on democracy.
	www.corporatepredators.org (424 words)

	Citizen Works - Issues
		Despite the failure of the federal government to systematically and regularly document corporate crime and violence, it exists, and it is sometimes prosecuted.
		Corporate violence that results in worker deaths is rarely prosecuted, either at the state or federal level.
		Corporate criminals are often caught by company whistleblowers and by federal or state officials under the nation's toughest anti-corporate wrongdoing civil law - the federal False Claims Act.
	www.citizenworks.org /issues/democracy/demo-issuepapers-corp-crime.php (2969 words)

	State-corporate crime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In criminology, the concept of state-corporate crime refers to crimes that result from the relationship between the policies of the state and the policies and practices of commercial corporations.
		The infrastructure of law and commerce are provided by the government of each state in which the corporation desires to trade, and there is an inevitable linkage between the political and commercial interests.
		The research studies situations where, for various reasons, the oversight of corporate and/or state organisations by independent bodies has been manipulated or excluded, and either exsting criminal activity is redefined as lawful, or criminal activity results but is not prosecuted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State-corporate_crime (970 words)

	Corporate Crime
		The perverse genius of the corporation is not just that it maximizes profit by offloading as many costs (employee education, environmental cleanup) as possible onto the public; it also enables owners and managers to simultaneously claim that each other are ultimately responsible for the company's actions.
		WILPF Statement on "corporate malfeasance" This is an opportune time to talk with people about corporate trampling upon democracy, but the danger is that we concerned citizens will once again be co-opted by diversionary reforms and rhetoric about corporate accountability and responsibility.
		Corporations, their defense attorneys and lobbyists are swarming all over Washington seeking to save their collective hides.
	www.omnicenter.org /justicecollection/corporatecrime.htm (15902 words)

	Center for Corporate Policy: Corporate Crime and Abuse
		But a recognition that corporations are able to compensate their victims and are more readily identified as a source of harm than the individuals within them has gradually led to the general consideration that corporations can be convicted for acts that violate the law.
		American courts first placed corporations into a criminal law context in a 1909 New York Central Railroad case (212 U.S. Standards for criminal sanctions for both corporations and their top executives should be strengthened, especially for occupational, consumer and environmental crimes resulting in death or serious injury.
		Richard Breeden, a corporate monitor and former SEC commissioner was appointed by the district court.
	www.corporatepolicy.org /issues/crime.htm (2762 words)

	Corporate Crime Reporter
		For every corporation convicted of selling illegal pesticides, there are hundreds more who are not prosecuted because their lobbyists have worked their way in Washington to ensure that dangerous pesticides remain legal.
		For every corporation convicted of reckless homicide in the death of a worker, there are hundreds of others that don't even get investigated for reckless homicide when a worker is killed on the job.
		United Technologies Corporation pled guilty to six felony violations of federal environmental laws and was fined $3 million, at the time the largest criminal fine ever for a hazardous waste violation in the United States.
	www.corporatecrimereporter.com /top100.html (13200 words)

	Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990's
		The 100 corporate criminals fell into 14 categories of crime: Environmental (38), antitrust (20), fraud (13), campaign finance (7), food and drug (6), financial crimes (4), false statements (3), illegal exports (3), illegal boycott (1), worker death (1), bribery (1), obstruction of justice (1) public corruption (1), and tax evasion (1).
		For every corporation convicted of reckless homicide in the death of a worker, there are hundreds of others that don't even get investigated for reckless homicide when a worker is killed on the job.
		United Technologies Corporation pled guilty to six felony violations of federal environmental laws and was fined $3 million, at the time the largest criminal fine ever for a hazardous waste violation in the United States.
	www.corporatepredators.org /top100.html (13200 words)

	MetroActive News & Issues \| Corporate Crime
		Even when corporations get caught by their own egregiousness, committing acts so outrageous and heinous and on such a scale that the authorities grudgingly have to haul them into court, they're usually subject to no more than civil penalties and fines.
		Instead, many corporate crimes are improperly treated as civil violations, and many bad acts are just called "legal"--as in "it may be wrong to put out a poorly tested toy that chokes a toddler or two, but it's legal."
		The authority to revoke corporate charters is still on the books of nearly every state, and it's time for us to reassert some of the passion of 1776 by using that authority.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.13.00/crime-0015.html (1666 words)

	Corporate Crime Reporter
		After all, with the growing divide between the hyper-rich and the rich – never mind the rich and the rest of us – it was just considered a touch gauche to let major American corporations off the hook for corporate crimes that inflict more damage on society than street crimes.
		Even if the corporation is criminally corrupt from top to bottom – you can get the job done by criminally prosecuting the individuals within the corporation – no need to prosecute the corporation itself, Epstein says.
		“Anytime there is a mid-level official inside a corporation that does something illegal, the corporation may be indicted for that even if it had supervised or monitored the activity in order to prevent it.
	www.corporatecrimereporter.com (1407 words)

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