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The Organization As Weapon In White-Collar Crime, Stanton Wheeler, Mitchell Lewis Rothman
The Organization As Weapon In White-Collar Crime, Stanton Wheeler, Mitchell Lewis Rothman
Michigan Law Review
This Article explores the advantages of using organization or occupation in the more typical case. Our inquiry takes this as its central question: What difference does it make when a white-collar crime is committed in the course of one's occupation or when acting on behalf, or with the assistance, of an organization? If we are becoming, as some have argued, an organizational society, then we should see the results of this change reflected in illicit as well as licit behavior. The organizational form may be used for either social or antisocial ends. Our principal hypothesis, as the title suggests, is …
Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior, Diane Vaughan
Toward Understanding Unlawful Organizational Behavior, Diane Vaughan
Michigan Law Review
The emergence and growth of regulatory agencies charged with controlling organizational misconduct has been so widespread that the monitoring and regulation of corporate interactions has itself become "big business," with the complexity of the regulatory agencies at times matching or even exceeding that of the organizations they regulate. The effectiveness of these efforts to control unlawful organizational behavior has been assessed in many different ways. The records of agency investigations, administrative hearings, and judicial proceedings provide data on enforcement actions, court decrees, trials, convictions, penalties, and other indicators that allow empirical estimates to be made. A realistic assessment of agency …