The Historical Development of Corporate Criminal Liability
作者:
THOMAS J. BERNARD,
期刊:
Criminology
(WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 1
页码: 3-18
ISSN:0011-1384
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1984.tb00285.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe application of criminal liability to corporations grew out of a minor common law doctrine that masters were criminally liable if their servants created a public nuisance by throwing something out of the house onto the street. The expansion of that doctrine to full corporate criminal liability was primarily the result of judicial interpretation of common law and existing statutory laws, rather than the result of any‐deliberate legislative action Civil law countries, lacking the tradition of judicial interpretation, have never developed the concept of corporate criminality. Corporate criminal liability will probably continue to expand in common law countries, regardless of its merit
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