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By Brent Fisse

ISBN-10: 0873957334

ISBN-13: 9780873957335

Uncertainty surrounds using exposure as a way of controlling company crime. at the one hand, a few consider Justice Brandeis's dictum that gentle is "the better of disinfectants...the best policeman." nonetheless, many think that organizations' inner affairs are successfully shrouded with a thick fog that stops the sunshine of public scrutiny from achieving them.
The effect of exposure on company Offenders is the 1st research to move past the rhetoric, via an exam of company adventure. Fisse and Braithwaite have conducted a qualitative inquiry referring to 17 huge businesses inquisitive about exposure crises. established in general on interviews, the inquiry contains corporation staff and previous staff, union officers, officials of presidency regulatory organisations, opponents, autonomous accountants, executive prosecutors, public curiosity activists, judicial officials, stockbrokers, and different specialists.

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For example, an important decision against them on January 25, 1980, in which, among other things, they were ordered to rehire workers allegedly dismissed for union activity, attracted one column inch on page 36 of the New York Times. " 3 The important adverse publicity did not follow from normal reporting of court decisions; it was created by activists. The best known publicity against the Stevens harassment of Southern union supporters was the 1979 film, "Norma Rae," which won Sally Field an Oscar for her portrayal of a Stevens textile worker, Crystal Lee Sutton.

These general advantages aside, publicity as a technique of social control may have special merit where corporations are the targets. 5 As Ralph Nader has stressed: The style of violence and fraud that flow from corporate activities enhances their perpetuation without countercorrection. Unsafely designed automobiles, pollution, harmful food additives, and other contaminants Page 2 embody a silent kind of violence with indeterminate, unpredictable incidence per victim. That impact does not provoke immediate sensory response of pain or anguish directed at the source of the harm.

The confidence of Ray Rogers in the corporate campaign strategy was thus vindicated. It is possible, of course, that the power elite may regroup to ensure that they are never humbled in this way again. However, this conclusion was rejected by Rogers in an analysis provided long before the campaign had succeeded: People have asked me if Corporate America, banks and insurance companies, won't band together to put a stop to the Corporate Campaign. I'll tell you why they can't. You have to understand the nature of power relationships in the corporate community.

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