Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk

by Mark Pieth

With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons, who 'think' and 'act' through human beings. The expansion of new corporate criminal liability (CCL) laws since the mid-1990s challenges this assumption...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400706731
• ISBN13: 9789400706736
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.7" x 6.2"