Corporations, Crime and Accountability

Corporations, Crime and Accountability
Author: Brent Fisse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521459235

Explaining why accountability for corporate crime is rarely imposed under the present law, this text proposes solutions that would help to extend responsibility to a wide range of actors. It develops an Accountability Model under which the courts and corporations work together to achieve accountability across a broad front.

Criminal Actions and Social Situations

Criminal Actions and Social Situations
Author: Anthony Amatrudo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2018-01-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137457317

This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical – and problematic – issues of how intention and action both structure membership and action. Amatrudo also assesses the often-overlooked fleeting nature of many groups and the overstated continuity of group membership, and this book has radical implications for the way we describe criminal groupings e.g. “criminal” groups with their loose bonds but tight sense of intentionality from criminogenic groups with their tight bonds and loose sense of intentionality. A key issue investigated here is the implications involved for people incarcerated on joint criminal enterprise charges and gang membership-related charges; and this timely topic will be of great interest to academics and students of Criminology, Law, Sociology and a variety of other Social Sciences. The volume will also be useful for lawyers, social workers, community workers and others involved in the criminal justice system.

Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud

Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud
Author: Alison Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351716840

Through a rational reconstruction of orthodox legal principles, and reference to cutting-edge neuro-science, this book reveals some startling truths about the criminal law, its history and the fundamental doctrines that underpin the attribution of criminal fault. While this has important implications for the criminal law generally, the focus of this work is the development of a theory of corporate criminality that accords with modern theory of group agency, itself informed by advancements in contemporary philosophy and social science. The innovation it proposes is the theoretical and practical means by which criminal fault can be attributed directly to the corporate actor, where liability cannot or should not be reduced to its individual members.

Corporate Criminal Liability and Prevention

Corporate Criminal Liability and Prevention
Author: Richard S. Gruner
Publisher: Law Journal Press
Total Pages: 1408
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781588521255

The book instructs corporate counsel on how to adopt forward-looking compliance policies that can prevent criminal liability and how to mitigate the severity of penalties when they are unavoidable.

Criminal Liability of Corporations = LA Criminalisation Du Comportement Collectif

Criminal Liability of Corporations = LA Criminalisation Du Comportement Collectif
Author: Hans De Doelder
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1996
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789041101655

This volume contains fourteen national reports and the general report on the subject of "Criminal Liability of Corporations," written for the XIVth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law which was held in 1994 in Athens, Greece. The issue of criminal liability of corporations is being discussed worldwide, as is apparent in the many changes which are taking place in both criminal law and administrative law in several countries. The national reports give an overview of the various trends in criminal policy when addressing the topic of liability of corporations and the general report sets out a common thread in this field.

Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Author: Kai Ambos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2020-01-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108483399

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

Crime as Structured Action

Crime as Structured Action
Author: James W. Messerschmidt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-08-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442225424

James W. Messerschmidt’s groundbreaking book Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates through a complex series of gender, race, sexual, and class practices. In the second edition of this powerful book, Messerschmidt updates both structured action theory as well as several of the original case studies, and he includes a new case study that further brings structured action theory to life. The book also features expanded discussions of whiteness and sexuality, and their relationships to crime.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility
Author: Saba Bazargan-Forward
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2020-04-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 135160757X

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together. Such questions include: Do individuals share responsibility for the outcome or are individuals responsible only for their contribution to the act? Are individuals responsible for actions done by their group even when they don’t contribute to the outcome? Can a corporation or institution be held morally responsible apart from the responsibility of its members? The Handbook’s 35 chapters—all appearing here for the first time and written by an international team of experts—are organized into four parts: Part I: Foundations of Collective Responsibility Part II: Theoretical Issues in Collective Responsibility Part III: Domains of Collective Responsibility Part IV: Applied Issues in Collective Responsibility Each part begins with a short introduction that provides an overview of issues and debates within that area and a brief summary of its chapters. In addition, a comprehensive index allows readers to better navigate the entirety of the volume’s contents. The result is the first major work in the field that serves as an instructional aid for those in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, as well as a reference for scholars interested in learning more about collective responsibility.