Corporate Crime Law and Social Control or Womens Work in Rural China

Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

Author: Sally S Simpson

Why do corporations comply with the law? When companies violate the law, what kinds of interventions are most apt to return them to compliant status? The purpose of this book is to examine whether a shift toward the use of criminal law with its emphasis on punishment and stigmatization will be a successful crime control strategy. The author reviews whether current legal systems based in criminal, civil, and regulatory law "deter" corporate crime. She concludes that strict criminalization models that rely on punishments will not yield sufficiently high levels of compliance.

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Simpson (criminology and criminal justice, University of Maryland) analyzes the emerging trend toward the criminalization of corporate misbehavior. She explains the theory underlying criminalization, and identifies its flaws. She then argues that, based on empirical evidence, cooperative models are more likely to gain corporate compliance, though these may need to be augmented with punitive strategies. Appendices include questionnaire items, responses, and sample characteristics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Criminalizing the Corporate Control Process	1
2	Deterrence in Review	22
3	Assessing the Failure of Corporate Deterrence and Criminal Justice	45
4	Corporate Deterrence and Civil Justice	61
5	Corporate Deterrence and Regulatory Justice	79
6	Cooperative Models of Corporate Compliance: Alternatives to Criminalization	98
7	Criminalization versus Cooperation: An Empirical Test	116
8	Shaping the Contours of Control	153
	App. A: Study One: Questionnaire Items and Responses	163
	App. B: Study One: Sample Characteristics	169
	App. C: Study Two: Questionnaire Items and Responses	170
	App. D: Study Two: Sample Characteristics	173
	Name Index	174
	Subject Index	176

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Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform

Author: Tamara Jacka

Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labor. This book provides detailed information on the shifts in women's work patterns that have occurred. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to other aspects of women's position in society. While other aspects of reform in rural China have been analyzed extensively, this is one of very few, and to date the most comprehensive, studies of the effects of reform on rural women.