Measuring corporate environmental crime rates: progress and problems

The problem of corporate crime rates has been the subject of debate, speculation and operationalization for decades, largely stemming from the complexity of measuring this type of crime. Examining corporate environmental crime poses challenges and creates opportunities for advancing the discussion of corporate crime rates, but criminologists are less familiar with environmental data. In the current paper, we review the strengths and weaknesses of existing environmental data that can be used to construct the components of an environmental crime rate. We also present a corporate environmental crime rate derived from data on violations of the Clean Water Act and describe problems with using it in real world data. Implications for theory, practice and future research are discussed.

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Electoral participation

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A week in the life of a hospital

The same urgency and intellect that America's teaching hospitals apply to saving lives is now also going into saving the institutions themselves. All across the country, academic medical centers are trying to figure out how to marry progress with profits. At the Duke University Medical Center, TIME visits the front line in the war between money and medicine.