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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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2 results foundAuthor: Stickeler, Charles Nickolas Title: A Deadly Way of Doing Business: A Case Study of Corporate Crime in the Coal Mining Industry Summary: To this point, research on corporate crime has been, for the most part, overlooked by mainstream criminology. In particular, corporate violations of safety regulations in the coal mining industry have yet to be studied within the field of criminology. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the crimes of a coal mining corporation, a corporation whose business decisions led to the worst coal mining disaster in forty years, along with the deaths of twenty-nine men. This thesis will utilize a case study format in order to illustrate the crimes committed by this corporation. Previous literature covering the history of coal mining safety in the United States, the political economy of coal, and theoretical explanations of corporate crime will be reviewed. The crimes detailed in this case study will then be explained using Contextual Anomie/Strain Theory. The criminal liability of corporations, potential ways to reduce corporate crime in the coal mining industry, as well as limitations of this study and directions for future research in this area will also be discussed. Details: University of South Florida, 2012. 91p. Source: Internet Resource: Thesis: Accessed November 23, 2012 at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5427&context=etd Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5427&context=etd Shelf Number: 126951 Keywords: Coal Mining IndustryCorporate Crime (U.S.)Criminal LiabilityDisastersWhite-Collar Crime |
Author: Robinson, Paul H. Title: An Overview of The Effect of Mental Illness Under US Criminal Law Summary: This paper reviews the various ways in which an offender's mental illness can have an effect on liability and offense grading under American criminal law. The 52 American jurisdictions have adopted a variety of different formulations of the insanity defense. A similar diversity of views is seen in the way in which different states deal with mental illness that negates an offense culpability requirement, a bare majority of which limit a defendant's ability to introduce mental illness for this purpose. Finally, the modern successor of the common law provocation mitigation allows, in its new breadth, certain forms of mental illness as a murder mitigation, mitigating to a lesser form of murder or to manslaughter. Details: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2014. 18p. Source: Internet Resource: U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-25: Accessed May 9, 2017 at: Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 131511 Keywords: Criminal LiabilityInsanity Defense Mental Illness Mentally Ill Offenders |