ABSTRACT
As we noted in Chapter 1, many U.S. corporations have been involved in criminal activity on a continuing basis. Corporate crime, like criminal behavior generally, is costly and harmful to society. We seem to be besieged by reports of dangerous products or by disclosures of corporate misbehavior that disregards our quality of life or that violates our basic values. And yet, despite the seriousness of these acts and their costs to us, the law-especially the criminal law-has often provided insufficient redress for the socially harmful behavior of corporations.
