ABOUT THIS BOOK

Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry's research priorities. It's Legal but It Ain't Right tackles these issues, plus the ethical ambiguities of legalized gambling, the firearms trade, the fast food industry, the pesticide industry, private security companies, and more. Aiming to identify industries and goods that undermine our societal values and to hold them accountable for their actions, this collection makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of ethics in our time.

This accessible exploration of corporate legitimacy and crime will be important reading for advocates, journalists, students, and anyone interested in the dichotomy between law and legitimacy.

Nikos Passas is Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.

Neva Goodwin is Co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Nikos Passas is Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.

Neva Goodwin is Co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.

REVIEWS

"It's Legal but It Ain't Right chronicles the abuse of power and privilege by businesses that defy the strictures of law and limits of regulation. Contributors stretch the conceptual boundaries of corporate deviance across a wide range of industries at a time when standards of corporate social responsibility and good corporate citizenship are in flux."
--William S. Laufer, Professor, The Wharton School of Business

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"This delightful and serious book involves a matter I have long felt of first importance. That is our tendency to make social truth and acceptance conform to personal or larger corporate interests. On this I have written , but gladly yield to this persuasive parallel. No one concerned with literate, informed, and relevant---as distinct from self-serving---truth should miss It's Legal but It Ain't Right."
--John Kenneth Galbraith

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"This absorbing and well-written book of essays on the harmful consequences of legal industries skillfully illuminates the ways in which some corporate harms fail to be transformed into criminal law-making and enforcement, and offers cogent suggestions for better regulation in the public interest."
--Dr. Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1. Introduction: A Crime by Any Other Name
 Nikos Passas and Neva Goodwin
2. The Cigarette Industry
 Richard Daynard
3. Externalities of the Arms Trade
 Loretta Bondi
4. Firearms: Another Peculiar American Institution
 Tom Diaz
5. Leashing the "Dogs of War"
 Herbert Howe
6. The Costs of Legalized Gambling: An Economic Approach
 John Warren Kindt
7. The Licit and Illicit Trade in Antiquities
 Patty Gerstenblith
8. The High Price of Cheap Food
 Mark Ritchie
9. Accountability in the Pesticide Industry
 Peter Riggs and Megan Waples
10. Titans of the Enron Economy: The Ten Habits of Highly Defective Corporations
 Scott Klinger and Holly Sklar
11. Profiting through Influence; The Pharmaceutical and Lobbying Industries
 Ken Silverstein and Jess Taylor
List of Contributors
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Business ethics, Business ethics United States, Corporations Corrupt practices Case studies, Corporations Corrupt practices United States Case studies, Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects, Globalization Moral and ethical aspects, Lobbying Moral and ethical aspects, Business and politics, Political corruption, Social responsibility of business

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