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Corporate Criminal Liability

Emergence, Convergence, and Risk

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Editors:
  1. Mark Pieth

    1. , Faculty of Law, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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  2. Radha Ivory

    1. , Faculty of Law, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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  • Most up to date survey of corporate criminal liability law in civil and common law jurisdictions
  • Comprehensive summary of key developments and trends
  • Analyzes the implications of reforms for companies and their officers

Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 9)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Analytical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Emergence and Convergence: Corporate Criminal Liability Principles in Overview

      • Mark Pieth, Radha Ivory
      Pages 3-60

  3. Country Reports

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Corporate Criminal Liability in the United States: Is a New Approach Warranted?

      • Ved P. Nanda
      Pages 63-89

    3. Corporate Criminal Liability in England and Wales: Past, Present, and Future

      • Celia Wells
      Pages 91-112

    4. Corporate Criminal Liability in Scotland: The Problems with a Piecemeal Approach

      • Findlay Stark
      Pages 113-146

    5. Corporate Criminal Liability in France

      • Katrin Deckert
      Pages 147-176

    6. Corporate Criminal Liability in the Netherlands

      • Berend F. Keulen, Erik Gritter
      Pages 177-191

    7. La responsabilité pénale de l’entreprise en droit suisse

      • Bertrand Perrin
      Pages 193-225

    8. Corporate Criminal Liability in Germany

      • Martin Böse
      Pages 227-254

    9. Societas Delinquere Potest? The Italian Solution

      • Cristina de Maglie
      Pages 255-270

    10. La Responsabilidad de las Personas Jurídicas en el Derecho Penal Español

      • Miguel Ángel Boldova, María Ángeles Rueda
      Pages 271-288

    11. Principales Aspectos de la Nueva de Responsabilidad Penal de las Personas Jurídicas en Chile (Ley N°20.393)

      • Nelly Salvo
      Pages 289-311

    12. Corporate Criminal Liability in Hungary

      • Ferenc Santha, Szilvia Dobrocsi
      Pages 313-331

    13. Why the Czech Republic Does Not (Yet) Recognize Corporate Criminal Liability: A Description of Unsuccessful Law Reforms

      • Jiří Jelínek, Karel Beran
      Pages 333-354

    14. The Recognition of Legal Persons in International Human Rights Instruments: Protection Against and Through Criminal Justice?

      • Piet Hein van Kempen
      Pages 355-389

  4. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 391-391
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    2. Final Remarks: Criminal Liability and Compliance Programs

      • Mark Pieth
      Pages 393-395
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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. 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.

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“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 the various jurisdictions provide the reader with an interesting and informative analysis of the development and emergence of rules relating to corporate criminal liability in individual states.” (Stephen Griffin, International Company and Commercial Law Review, Vol. 23 (9), 2012)

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  • , Faculty of Law, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Mark Pieth, Radha Ivory

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