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Too big to jail : how prosecutors compromise with corporations / Brandon L. Garrett

Author
Garrett, Brandon
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Copyright Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (365 pages)
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Contents
United States vs. Goliath -- The company in the courtroom -- What happens to a prosecution deferred? -- The ostriches -- The victims -- The carrot and the stick -- Enter the monitors -- The constitutional rights of corporations -- Foreign corporate criminals -- The future of corporate prosecutions.
Summary
American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individuals, 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 against a major company in the United States.
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ISBN
9780674735712 (electronic book)
0674735714 (electronic book)
9780674368316 (hardcover)
0674368312 (hardcover)
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-356) and index.
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