European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability

✍ Scribed by Gobert, James; Pascal, Ana-Maria

Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 371
Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

When corporations carry on their business in a grossly negligent manner, or take a cavalier approach to risk management, the consequences can be catastrophic. The harm may be financial, as occurred when such well-regarded companies as Enron, Lehman Brothers, Worldcom and Barings collapsed, or it may be environmental, as illustrated most recently by the Gulf oil spill. Sometimes deaths and serious injuries on a mass scale occur, as in the Bhopal gas disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, the Paris crash of the Concorde, the
capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise, and rail crashes at Southall, Paddington and Hatfield in England.What role can the law play in preventing such debacles and in punishing the corporate offenders?
This collection of thematic papers and European country reports addresses these questions at both a theoretical and empirical level. The thematic papers analyse corporate criminal liability from a range of academic disciplines, including law, sociology/criminology, economics, philosophy and environmental studies, whilst the country reports look at the laws of corporate crime throughout Europe, highlighting both common features and irreconcilable differences between the various jurisdictions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: James Gobert and Ana-Maria Pascal
Part I: Thematic issues
1. Containing corporate crime: civil or criminal controls?:Celia Wells
2. A legal person’s conscience: philosophical underpinnings of corporate criminal liability: Ana-Maria Pascal
3. The challenges of regulating powerful economic actors: Laureen Snider and Steven Bittle
4. State complicity in the production of corporate crime: Steve Tombs
5. Penalising corporate ‘culture’: the key to safer corporate activity?: Rick Sarre
Part II: Organisational v. individual liability
6. The organizational component in corporate crime: Maurice Punch
7. Individual liability of company officers: Neil Foster
8. Squaring the circle: the relationship between individual and organizational fault: James Gobert
Part III: Particular offences
9. Environmental offending, regulation and ‘the legislative balancing act’: Nigel South
10. Investigating safety crimes in Finland: Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi
11. Political autonomy, accountability and efficiency in the prosecution of serious white-collar crimes: Michael Levi
Part IVa: Country reports: countries with criminal liability
12. Austria: Ingrid Mitgutsch
13. Belgium: Melanie Ramkissoon
14. Denmark: Ana-Maria Pascal
15. Estonia: Ana-Maria Pascal
16. Finland: James Gobert
17. France: Pascal Beauvais
18. Ireland: Edward Fitzgerald
19. Italy: Cristina de Maglie
20. Lithuania: Deividas Soloveičikas
21. Luxembourg: Ana-Maria Pascal and Janis Dillon
22. The Netherlands: Melanie Ramkissoon
23. Poland: Ana-Maria Pascal
24. Portugal: Ana-Maria Pascal and Melanie Ramkissoon
25. Romania: Ana-Maria Pascal
26. Slovenia: Janis Dillon
27. Spain: Melanie Ramkissoon
28. UK: James Gobert
Part IVb: Country reports: countries with administrative liability
29. Czech Republic: Melanie Ramkissoon
30. Germany: Klaus Rogall
31. Sweden: Ana-Maria Pascal
Index

✦ Subjects

Corporation law European Union countries Criminal provisions Congresses liability of juristic persons

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