Zero tolerance and public shaming are increasingly advocated for both crimes of
the powerless and crimes of the powerful. In this essay we argue against zero
tolerance with respect to both kinds of crime. However, we defend naming and
shaming with respect to crimes of the powerful. Part I of the paper begins from
the assumption that both zero tolerance and naming and shaming are policies that
do not merit serious consideration with crimes of the powerless. It then goes on
to consider harder questions: first whether zero tolerance and then naming and
shaming have a place with crimes of the powerful. Drug abuse is used in Part II
as a case study to explore these distinctions. It will be contended that zero
tolerance is a prescription for increasing drug abuse, but that naming and
shaming is essential to the prevention of drug abuse. This conclusion is reached
by viewing the drug problem differently from conventional criminological
analyses in a radically reconfigured context as a corporate crime and
organisational regulation problem.
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