Corporate Criminal Liability Emergence, Convergence, and Risk /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pieth, Mark (Editor), Ivory, Radha (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice ; 9
• Subjects: Law.; Law > Philosophy.; Criminal law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Law and economics.; Criminal Law.; Law and Economics.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence societies for better or worse. 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...