Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice #9)

By: Mark Pieth and Radha Ivory

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Synopsis: With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons, who 'think' and 'act' through human beings. The expansion of new corporate criminal liability (CCL) laws since the mid-1990s challenges this assumption. Our volume surveys current practice on CCL in 15 civil and common law jurisdictions, exploring the legal conditions for liability, the principles and options for sanctioning, and the procedures for investigating, charging and trying corporate offenders. It considers whether municipal CCL laws are converging around the notion of 'corporate culture', and, in any case, the implications of CCL for those charged with keeping corporations, and other legal entities, out of trouble.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9789400706743
Related ISBNs:: 9789400706736
Publisher:: Springer Netherlands
Date of Addition:: 08/03/18
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English, Spanish, French
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Reference, Business and Finance, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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