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Corporations and criminal responsibility /

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Business corporations wield enormous economic power, and legal structures largely serve their interests. This book analyses the background to the demands to use criminal law sanctions against corporations, including demand for corporate manslaughter.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, Celia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
Subjects:
Criminal liability of juristic persons > Great Britain.
Corporation law > Great Britain > Criminal provisions.
Personnes morales > Responsabilité pénale > Grande-Bretagne.
Sociétés (Droit pénal) > Grande-Bretagne.
Corporation law > Criminal provisions.
Criminal liability of juristic persons.
Great Britain.
Law - Non-U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Safety and Public Welfare
  • 1. Regulatory offences
  • 2. Real crime and real persons
  • 3. Corporations and crime
  • 2. The role of criminal law
  • 1. Why criminal law?
  • 2. Theories of punishment
  • 3. Crime and regulation
  • 4. Corporate Sanctions
  • 3. Attribution of responsibility
  • 1. Social constructions of crime
  • 2. Blame attribution
  • 3. Cause and blame
  • 4. Institutional influences
  • 4. Criminal responsibility and the corporate entity
  • 1. Notions of criminal responsibility
  • 2. Culpability and strict liability
  • 3. Groups, associations, and corporations
  • 4. The corportate entity
  • 5. Corporate liability in England and Wales
  • 1. Historical development
  • 2. Corporate liability
  • a maturing idea
  • 6. Corporate manslaughter
  • 1. Key developments
  • 2. Culpability and risk
  • 3. Unlawful act manslaughter
  • the forgotten question
  • 4. Corporate killing
  • a proposed offence
  • 7. Comparative and international solutions
  • 1. Comparative cautions
  • 2. Common law variations
  • 3. Civil law changes
  • 4. Convergence
  • 8. The responsible corporation
  • 1. The corporate organization
  • 2. Strict (vicarious) liability versus due diligence
  • 3. People, systems, and culture
  • 4. Individual liability
  • 5. The responsible corporation.