Title Too big to jail : how prosecutors compromise with corporations / Brandon L. Garrett.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
	©2014

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Description	1 online resource (365 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-356) and index.
Contents	United states vs. Goliath -- The company in the courtroom -- What happens to a prosecution deferred? -- The ostriches -- The victims -- The carrot and the stick -- Enter the monitors -- The constitutional rights of corporations -- Foreign corporate criminals -- The future of corporate prosecutions.
Summary	American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individuals, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Corporation law -- United States -- Criminal provisions.
	Tort liability of corporations -- United States.
	Corporate governance -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
	Criminal liability of juristic persons -- United States.
	Prosecution -- United States.
	LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
	Corporate governance -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00879652
	Corporation law -- Criminal provisions. (OCoLC)fst00879734
	Corporations -- Corrupt practices. (OCoLC)fst00879825
	Criminal liability of juristic persons. (OCoLC)fst00883418
	Prosecution. (OCoLC)fst01079361
	Tort liability of corporations. (OCoLC)fst01152877
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	LAW / Corporate.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Garrett, Brandon, author. Too big to jail 9780674368316 (DLC) 2014013351 (OCoLC)875771532
ISBN	9780674735712 (electronic book)
	0674735714 (electronic book)

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