Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations
- ISBN-10
- 0674744616
- ISBN-13
- 9780674744615
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-11-03
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Brandon L. Garrett
Description
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.
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