Rena Steinzor

Why Not Jail?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781107053403
• ISBN-10: 1107053404
• Artikelnr.: 41608526

Autorenporträt

Rena Steinzor is a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland's Francis King Carey School of Law. She is the president of the Center for Progressive Reform (www.progressivereform.org), a think tank composed of sixty working academics from universities across the country that is a nationally recognized source of research and opinion on public health, worker and consumer safety, and the environment. Steinzor's publications include Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt our Kids (2007), The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public: Special Interests, Government, and Threats to Health, Safety, and the Environment (with Sidney Shapiro, 2010) and Rescuing Science from Politics (co-edited with Wendy Wagner, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Status Quo: 1. Regulatory dysfunction
2. White-collar crime today
3. Cons and pros
Part II. The Lessons of Catastrophe: 4. Occupational disasters
5. Environmental disaster
6. Public health
Part III. Solutions: 7. A guilty mind
8. Deferred prosecution agreements.