Corporations and criminal responsibility / Celia Wells.
1993
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Author
Title
Corporations and criminal responsibility / Celia Wells.
Published
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Call Number
KD7892.5 .W45 1993
ISBN
0198254385 (cloth : alk. paper) :
Description
xvii, 165 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)27034357
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [150]-160) and index.
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Table of Contents
Table of Statutes
Table of Cases
1
Introduction
1
1Regulatory Offences
3
2Safety, Public Welfare, and Real Crime
5
3Strict Liability
8
4Corporations and Crime
9
5Conclusion
12
2
The Role of Criminal Law
14
1Why Criminal Law?
15
2Theories of Punishment
17
3Crime and Regulation
21
4Corporate Sanctions
30
3
Attribution of Responsibility
39
1Social Constructions of Crime
39
2The Non-Issue of Legal Causation
43
3Blame Attribution
49
4Institutional Influences
53
4
Notions of Criminal Responsibility
60
1Criminal Responsibility
62
2Recklessness, Risk, and Manslaughter
67
3Strict Liability
78
4Introducing Corporate Fault
82
5
Corporate Entities
84
1Are Corporations Persons?
85
2A Moral Person?
87
3The Concept of Juristic Personhood
90
6
The Development of Corporate Liability
94
1The Corporation as a Legal Person
95
2From Vicarious to Full Liability
97
3The Alter Ego Doctrine
103
4Liability for Manslaughter
111
5The Draft Criminal Code
113
6Alternative Approaches: US and Civil Law Responses
116
7
Corporate Liability for the Future
123
1Organization Theories
124
2The Concept of Vicarious Liability
128
3Forms of Liability
130
4Individual versus Group Liability
135
5The Complicity Analogy
138
8
Summary, Proposals, and Conclusions
141
1Criminal Justice
141
2Corporate Criminal Liability
143
3Individual Liability
146
4Why Punish a Corporation?
146
Bibliography
150
Index
161