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Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk
Mark Pieth
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Description for Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk
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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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
412
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
Condition
New
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400735934
SKU
V9789400735934
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Reviews for Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk
From the reviews: “The work explores the various forms and types of corporate criminal liability and examines the procedures necessary to achieve conviction and the sanctions attached to the same. … this work is to be highly recommended for academics and students who have an interest in the comparative study of corporate criminal liability. … the commentaries attached to ... Read more