Abstract

White-Collar Thuggery

The article presents information on the book "Corporate Crime and Violence: Big Business Power and the Abuse of the Public Trust," by Russell Mokhiber. In this book, Mokhiber offers readers thirty six cases of corporate misconduct that killed people or destroyed the environment. Most of them are widely reported and commented on when they occurred, or shortly thereafter. Mokhiber condenses each case into about ten pages, and manages itm so well that the core of each crime is saved for readers thorough inspection. He highlights in his book that corporate crimes were not impersonal ones. He introduces readers to corporations that persisted in marketing a dangerous product and took no thought for the consequences, even if they could have made product safe very easily and cheaply.