Cullen (U. of Cincinnati), Cavender (Arizona State U.), Maakestad (Western Illinois U.), and Benson (U. of Cincinnati) examine corporate violence and the long and mounting effort to bring such
harm within the reach of the criminal law. The text is a revised edition of Cullen, Maakestad, and Cavender’s 1987 publication, Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond. The
first section, on the expanding criminalization of corporations, has been reordered and revised to create a faster-paced, up-to-date account, arranged in historical sequence. The middle section
focusing on the Pinto case is largely unchanged, but contains a new epilogue. The final section--the aftermath of Ford’s prosecution--contains new material assessing the extent to which the
criminal law has been used more recently to fight business violence and considering future directions of such efforts. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
