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Corporate Crime and Punishment
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Corporate Crime and Punishment

by John C. Coffee
August 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
216 pages
7h 11m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Civil Agency Enforcement

An Overview

CIVIL ENFORCEMENT DWARFS CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT, whether in terms of manpower allocated, aggregate damages collected, or number of actions brought. Thus, this may seem a late point to introduce the topic of public enforcement by federal agencies. In truth, both criminal and civil enforcement have the same basic objectives: deterrence, compensation, and prevention (although civil enforcement focuses much more on compensation). Both may also have the same tendency to focus more on the entity than the individual executive (although civil enforcement by agencies can disbar or suspend the individual).1 More importantly, ...

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ISBN: 9781523088874