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Corporate and governmental deviance : problems of organizational behavior in contemporary society
- Title
- Corporate and governmental deviance : problems of organizational behavior in contemporary society / [edited by] M. David Ermann, Richard J. Lundman.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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- Description
- x, 331 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Corporate and Governmental Deviance is the most complete and accessible treatment and exploration of the deviant behavior of big business and big government. Now in its fifth edition, this popular collection has been thoroughly updated to include an expanded introductory essay by the editors, new selections on corporate cover-ups, including such controversial issues as the Pinto fire hazards, the health risks associated with Rely tampons, as well as the current debates on excessive force by police and price-fixing. Moral issues within government, such as the rationalization of the use of genocide during the Nazi Holocaust, along with an essay of the media coverage and the public reactions to such crimes are covered as well. The new edition also retains the familiar classic essays by major scholars featured in previous editions.
- Intended for use in sociology and criminology courses, this book provides readers with an even clearer appreciation of the fact that organizations, and not just individuals, commit acts of deviance.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Corporate and governmental deviance : origins, patterns, and reactions / M. David Ermann and Richard J. Lundman -- The asymmetric society : organizational actors, corporate power, and the irrelevance of persons / James S. Coleman -- Moral mazes : managerial work and personal ethics / Robert Jackall -- White collar crime : definition and the statistical record / Edwin H. Sutherland -- The heavy electrical equipment antitrust cases : price-fixing techniques and rationalizations / Gilbert Geis -- Why should mu conscience bother me? Hiding aircraft brake hazards / Kermit Vandivier -- Why I didn't recognize Pinto fire hazards : how organizational scripts channel managers' thoughts and actions / Dennis A. Gioia -- The Nazi Holocaust : using bureaucracies, overcoming psychological barriers to genocide / Raul Hilberg -- The My Lai massacre : crimes of obedience and sanctioned massacres / Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton -- The Challenger disaster : organizational demands and personal ethics / Russell Boisjoly, Ellen Foster Curtis, and Eugene Mellican -- Rodney King and use of excessive force : police work and organizational culture / Jerome H. Skolnick and James J. Fyfe -- Ten whistleblowers : what they did and how they fared / Myron Peretz Glazer -- Rely tampons and toxic shock syndrome : Procter & Gamble's responses / Alecia Swasy -- Chained factory fire exits : media coverage of a corporate crime that killed 25 workers / John P. Wright, Francis T. Cullen, and Michael B. Blankenship -- Asbestos exposure by Johns-Manville : coverups, litigation, bankruptcy, and compensation / Craig Calhoun and Henryk Hiller.
- ISBN
- 0195094875
- 9780195094879
- LCCN
- 95018505
- OCLC
- ocm32468999
- 32468999
- SCSB-2081939
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library