Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Ontario
Laureen's research has focused on Crimes of the Powerful and the laws, norms and regulations that are responsible for enforcing, disciplining and punishing corporate criminals. She has published articles on stock market enforcement and crime, tax evasion, environmental crime and crimes against workers, looking at how the increased power of business (especially multinational corporations) under neoliberal globalized capitalism has weakened laws against corporations and made enforcement weak to non-existent in many international arenas.
Canada needs to move beyond poorly enforced bribery laws and tackle corruption's root causes
Nov 02, 2023 13:30 pm UTC| Law
Canadas enforcement of laws against foreign bribery is weak, according to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A working group from the OECD has found that, in the...
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