| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 198 pages) |
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[Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice] |
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Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Series statement from jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal liability of juristic persons -- Great Britain
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Corporation law -- Great Britain -- Criminal provisions
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Corporation law -- Criminal provisions.
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Criminal liability of juristic persons.
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Law - Non-U.S.
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Law, Politics & Government.
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Law - Great Britain.
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Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191683411 |
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0191683418 |
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019924619X |
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9780199246199 |
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