Corporations and criminal responsibility / Celia Wells.
2001
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Author
Title
Corporations and criminal responsibility / Celia Wells.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Call Number
KD7892.5 .W45 2001
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0198267932 ( alk. paper)
019924619X (pbk.)
019924619X (pbk.)
Description
xvii, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)46433731
Note
Series statement from jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-184) and index.
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Table of Contents
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
1
Safety and Public Welfare
1
1Regulatory offences
3
2Real crime and real persons
5
3Corporations and crime
8
2
The role of criminal law
13
1Why criminal law?
14
2Theories of punishment
18
3Crime and regulation
21
4Corporate Sanctions
31
3
Attribution of responsibility
40
1Social constructions of crime
40
2Blame attribution
43
3Cause and blame
46
4Institutional influences
53
4
Criminal responsibility and the corporate entity
63
1Notions of criminal responsibility
64
2Culpability and strict liability
67
3Groups, associations, and corporations
70
4The corportate entity
74
5
Corporate liability in England and Wales
84
1Histrical development
86
2Corporate liability - a maturing idea
99
6
Corporate manslaughter
106
1Key developments
106
2Culpability and risk
115
3Unlawful act manslaughter - the forgotten question
117
4Corporate killing - a proposed offence
120
7
Comparative and international solutions
127
1Comparative cautions
128
2Common law variations
129
3Civil law changes
138
4Convergence
140
8
The responsible corporation
146
1The corporate organization
146
2Strict (vicarious) liability versus due diligence
152
3People, systems, and culture
154
4Individual liability
160
5The responsible corporation
164
Bibliography
169
Index
185