Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first definitive examination of the practice of corporate regulation and enforcement from the foundation of the Irish State to the present day. Traditionally, corporate wrongdoing was often criminalised using conventional criminal justice methods and the ordinary police were often charged with the responsibility of enforcing the law. Since the 1990s, however, the conventional crime monopoly on corporate deviancy has become fragmented because a variety of specialist, interdisciplinary agencies with enhanced powers now address corporate wrongdoing. The exclusive dominance of conventional crime methods has also faded because corporate wrongdoing is now specifically addressed by a pyramidal enforcement architecture, taking compliance orientated and sanctioning approaches, using both civil and criminal enforcement mechanisms, where criminal law is now the sanction of last resort.
Corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland is the first monograph to analyse the transitio
Trade Review
'Joe McGrath's study of the regulation of corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland is timely and important...What emerges is an impressive, context-sensitive account of policy change which links legal forms to cultural, social and historical factors in an enlightening and insightful way.'
Paul Almond, University of Reading, Dublin University Law Journal
'Not only is Dr McGrath's work topical, it is essential...Dr McGrath's work provides an invaluable record of Ireland's experience of corporate and white-collar crime. It is a fascinating read insofar as it serves to remind us of corporate, and indeed, political, scandals of the past and the inadequacies displayed by the State in responding to them. Dr McGrath deserves to be commended for his sedulous treatment of his subject. This book should be the vade mecum for our Government when considering whether the architecture of enforcement in this jurisdiction is robust. The question that remains is whether any such consideration will be undertaken and, if undertaken, conducted comprehensively.'
Shelley Horan, Barrister-at-Law, Law Library, Irish Business Law Review
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
PART A
1. Defining crime: the real crime obsession
2. Protectionism and procrastination: the era of inertia in corporate affairs
3. Conventional crime methods
4. Policing, prosecution and punishment
Summary of Part A
PART B
5. From apathy to activism: causal factors stimulating change
6. The new architecture of enforcement
7. ‘Responsive’ enforcement
Conclusion
References
Index
