Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada
A Harm-Based Approach
Kenneth Dowler author Daniel Antonowicz author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Canadian Scholars
Published:31st Oct '26
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Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the widespread harms caused by corporate activity in Canadian society. From polluting the environment and unsafe working conditions to consumer exploitation, wage theft, and the erosion of democratic accountability, corporations inflict profound harm that often falls outside traditional legal definitions of crime. Drawing on a social harm or "zemiological" framework, Dowler and Antonowicz challenge students to rethink how wrongdoing is defined, regulated, and permitted to persist.
Grounded firmly in the Canadian context, this book presents the historical, theoretical, and regulatory foundations of corporate wrongdoing while highlighting how corporate power is produced, protected, and normalized. Through a range of real-world Canadian case studies and examples in popular films and media, the authors examine the strategies corporations employ to evade accountability and highlight the roles of media, government, and advocacy in both enabling and resisting harm.
Organized around a unique typology of harm encompassing environmental, consumer, worker, economic, and democratic harms, the authors expand the scope of corporate wrongdoing to include areas often excluded from conventional analyses, such as long-term care, housing markets, and the privatization of healthcare and education. Written in clear, accessible language and offering a wealth of critical analysis, Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada is a thorough, engaging, and accessible text for criminology, law, and sociology students in courses focused on corporate crimes, white-collar crimes, and social harms.
"Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada is a skilfully crafted, innovative textbook, replete with explanatory and case-study based boxes and thought-provoking discussion questions, supporting the learning journey of students in grasping the dimensions, scale, and destructive realities of corporate wrongdoing. Simultaneously, it is a resource for those who would expose and resist corporate crime and power—deploying a social harm perspective, the authors document the multidimensional harms wreaked upon the environment, economies, workers, consumers, and any potential for democracy itself." —Steve Tombs, Emeritus Professor, The Open University (UK)
"Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada provides a cutting-edge examination of the full range of the injuries caused by corporations. It will become the go-to Canadian textbook for students and academics alike. Additionally, because of Dowler and Antonowicz's critical analysis and their incorporation of the historical, theoretical, and regulatory foundations of corporate wrongdoing, the book should also be useful to other countries as a comparative textbook for the study of multinational corporate wrongdoing." —Gregg Barak, Emeritus Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice Justice, Eastern Michigan University, and Editor of The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful
"Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada is a real achievement: a comprehensive guide to the routine nature of corporate lying, cheating, killing, and injuring that is the lifeblood of capitalist economies. If you had any doubt about the routine, everyday nature of corporate crime, you won't after you read Dowler and Antonowicz's devastating guide to the ruins that corporations leave in their wake. This book should be on the syllabus for all business studies and management studies degrees. Indeed, it should be required reading before any student starts on those subjects!" —David Whyte, Professor of Climate Justice, Queen Mary University of London
ISBN: 9781773385464
Dimensions: 248mm x 20mm x 171mm
Weight: unknown
392 pages