Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing

Research Handbooks in Corporate Law and Governance series

Edited by Jennifer Arlen, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law; Director, Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement; and Director, Center for Law, Economics and Organization, New York University, School of Law, US

Jennifer Arlen brings together 13 original chapters by leading scholars that examine how to deter corporate misconduct through public enforcement and private interventions. Scholars from a variety of disciplines present both theoretical and empirical analyses of organizational and individual liability for corporate crime, liability for foreign corruption, securities fraud enforcement, compliance, corporate investigations, and whistleblowing. This Research Handbook also highlights promising avenues for future research.

‘This wide-ranging collection of chapters on corporate criminality reflects the marriage of law and the social sciences at its best. At every stage, the discussion in individual chapters is admirably focused. The contributors to this Research Handbook are at the forefront of this multi-disciplinary field. Professor Jennifer Arlen’s introduction provides a unifying perspective and a welcome degree of continuity throughout the book.’
– Reinier Kraakman, Harvard Law School, US

‘The Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing is the new reference work for what is known about corporate crime deterrence. Simply put, this is what happens when you assemble contributions from the leading scholars of corporate crime and the corporate criminal law, and they deliver. This Research Handbook is an indispensable resource for academics across a wide range of methods and disciplines, policy-makers, private-sector practitioners, and government functionaries.’
——William s . Laufer,大学Pennsylvania, US

‘In this impressive volume, Jennifer Arlen brings together a diverse team of corporate crime scholars to tackle critical issues and unresolved puzzles in the enforcement area—the salience of which are even greater as we move into a new era of deregulation. Some of the answers may surprise you but the journey to get there is wide-ranging, illuminating, and empirically informed. This is essential reading for those who want to prevent and control corporate crime.’
– Sally S. Simpson, University of Maryland, College Park, US