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How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them

How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them

FromCurrent Affairs


How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them

FromCurrent Affairs

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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
May 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Jennifer Taub is a law professor whose book Big Dirty Money: Making White Collar Criminals Pay is about the double standard in American law that harshly punishes street crime while giving a free pass to corporate criminals. Taub tallies up the immense costs of corporate wrongdoing from fraud to wage theft and exposes how CEOs commit acts of destructive criminal wrongdoing with complete impunity. But Taub isn't just bemoaning the corruption of the justice system—she also shows how we can change it, and her book is a manifesto for action as well as an indictment. As the San Francisco Chronicle writes, Taub "proposes straightforward fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking white-collar criminals to task." Prof. Taub joins Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson and online editor Lily Sánchez to talk about how corporate criminals get away with it and why we don't need to resign ourselves to a two-tiered justice system. 
Released:
May 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.