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Looking for a list on corporate crime
Search engines are biased, as usual. I could not find a SINGLE page which has a very decent detailed list of (recent) corporations that have been fined for breaking the law, intentionally or even maybe incidentally. Please, many thanks ... I accept private messages as well in case someone doesnt want to be seen. Thanks in advance. I need a big list, or lists.
I did find one page, though its statistics and no detail on violators, I found some awesome stats:
"For example, in its 2001 report the FBI estimated that the nation's total loss from robbery, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft in 2001 was $17.2 billion -- less than a third of what Enron alone cost investors, pensioners and employees that year."
"Corporations also cause more violence and death than street criminals. The U.S. national murder rate reported by the FBI is about 16,000 each year.
Compare that to the number of people who die from corporate-related causes each year:
** Over 5,000 workers are killed on the job each year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Millions more become sick or injured each year. A group of occupational health and safety investigators estimates that in 1992 alone there were 66,971 total job-related injury and occupational disease deaths. (See J. Paul Leigh, Ph. D., et al., Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.)
** Another study estimates that 70,000 Americans die annually from product-related accidents, and millions more suffer disabling injuries at a cost of over $100 billion in property damage, lost wages, insurance, litigation, and medical expenses. (Brobeck and Averyt, The Product Safety Book, New York: Dutton, 1983, reported in David O. Friedrichs, Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1996.)
** These numbers do not include the thousands of annual deaths caused by cancer and other diseases linked to corporate pollution, defective products, tainted food and addictive substances such as tobacco, and other causes. An estimated 553,400 people in the U.S. died from cancer in 2001. (See J. NCI:93:10, ‘Stat Bite” May 6, 2001). Using conservative estimates put forth by those who dismiss environmental causes of cancer as negligible (i.e. 2 percent of the total incidence of cancer deaths), author Sandra Steingraber calculates that at least 11,098 people died from cancers due to environmental causes (i.e. industrial pollution) in 2001. (Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997, pp. 268-9.) "
"In 1979 the Justice Department issued “the first [and last] large-scale comprehensive investigation of corporations directly related to their violations of law.” Justice found that “approximately two-thirds of large corporations violated the law, some of them many times” over just a two year period (1975-1976). Actions that affected consumer product quality were “responded to with the least severe sanctions." (See “Illegal Corporate Behavior,” U.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, October 1979.)"
"In his pioneering 1949 study, White Collar Crime, Edwin Sutherland found that the 70 large corporations that he surveyed had an average of approximately four convictions each. In many states persons with four convictions are defined by statute to be “habitual criminals.” The frequency of criminal convictions of large corporations, Sutherland suggested, demonstrated the “fallacy of conventional theories that crime was due to poverty or to the personal and social pathologies connected with poverty.” Sutherland was particularly harsh in his characterization of corporate war profiteering (“profits are more important to large corporations than patriotism”)"
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http://www.corporatepolicy.org/issues/crimedata.htm
Also, I did find a link for top 100 corporate criminals of the 1990s - but I need something recent:
http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/top100.html
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Last edited by Magnetonium on Aug-24-2007 at 13:28
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