ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a discussion of corporate crime. We begin with a brief presentation of the personhood, rights, and legal power of corporations followed by an examination of corporate wealth and issues of conglomerates or monopolies. Other topics include the use of lobby power by corporations to sway policy and/or politicians toward their interests. Additionally, we provide current examples of violence against workers, restraint of trade, and fraud in advertising, sales, and accounting. Likewise, to disabuse the notion that corporate crimes are not violent, we provide examples that illustrate their role in harms such as environmental destruction, forced labor, forced displacement, and death, among other consequences.
