The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders

The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders
ISBN-10
0873957326
ISBN-13
9780873957328
Category
Social Science
Pages
393
Language
English
Published
1983-01-01
Publisher
SUNY Press
Authors
John Braithwaite, Professorial Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences John Braithwaite, Brent Fisse

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.

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