The impact of publicity on corporate offenders

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The impact of publicity on corporate offenders

Brent Fisse and John Braithwaite

(SUNY series on critical issues in criminal justice)

State University of New York Press, c1983

  • : [hard]
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Uncertainty surrounds the use of publicity as a means of controlling corporate crime. On the one hand, some agree with Justice Brandeis's dictum that light is "the best of disinfectants...the most efficient policeman." On the other hand, many believe that corporations' internal affairs are effectively shrouded with a thick fog that prevents the light of public scrutiny from reaching them. The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders is the first study to go beyond the rhetoric, through an examination of corporate experience. Fisse and Braithwaite have carried out a qualitative inquiry concerning 17 large corporations involved in publicity crises. Based mainly on interviews, the inquiry includes company employees and former employees, union officials, officers of government regulatory agencies, competitors, independent accountants, government prosecutors, public interest activists, judicial officers, stockbrokers, and other experts.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction 3. General Motors—The Corvair 4. Ford—The Pinto Papers 5. Ford—The Emissions-Testing Fraud 6. Kepone and Allied Chemical 7. Coke and Cancer at BHP 8. BHP—The Appin Mine Disaster 9. James Hardie Industries and Asbestos 10. Sharp Corporation—The Microwave Exposure 11. ITT and Covert Actions in Chile 12. Drug Testing at Searle 13. Bribery at Lockheed 14. Bribery at McDonnell Douglas 15. Bribery at Exxon 16. General Electric—The Heavy Electrical Equipment Price-Fixing Conspiracies 17. Antitrust at IBM 18. Air New Zealand—The Erebus Disaster 19. Summary of the Case Studies 20. Informal Publicity 21. Formal Publicity Appendix A Appendix B Notes Index

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