Too Big to Jail : : How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations /

Too Big to Jail : : How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations / / Brandon L. Garrett.

American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Garrett, Brandon L.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.) :; 1 line illustration, 17 graphs, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. United States vs. Goliath
  • 2. The Company in the Courtroom
  • 3. What Happens to a Prosecution Deferred?
  • 4. The Ostriches
  • 5. The Victims
  • 6. The Carrot and the Stick
  • 7. Enter the Monitors
  • 8. The Constitutional Rights of Corporations
  • 9. Foreign Corporate Criminals
  • 10. The Future of Corporate Prosecutions
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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