Increasing rates of deaths and injuries at work and accidents in transportation prompt calls for prosecution of corporations. Should corporations be punished? This book draws on philosophical, cultural, and psychological factors in discussing the criminal liability of corporations. Justifications for criminal punishment and the underlying bases of criminal responsibility are described in the context of corporate activity and the systems of regulation and control of corporate harm, though other fields of legislation are contrasted with conventional enforcement of criminal laws. Public perception of corporate harms is also explored from a number of perspectives.

Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

Wells, Celia

Oxford University Press

This timely book looks at philosophical, cultural, and psychological factors to consider whether corporations should be made subject to criminal liability. Wells raises such issues as why it is difficult to convict a corporation of manslaughter and how corporations should best be punished. Public perceptions of transport disasters such as the capsize of The Herald of Free Enterprise are discussed, and the system of regulation and control of corporate harm is analyzed. This work will be of great interest to teachers, scholars, and advanced students of criminology, criminal law, and company law.

Business & Money

Gathering ideas from a wide range of literature, this book argues that there is no magic answer to corporate power, to issues of personal safety, and their inter-relationship with criminal law and justice. This edition has been revised and updated, taking account of the burgeoning scholarly literature. Yet, it remains distinctive in combining legal analysis and discussion of law reform debates with a theoretical account of the relationship between legal institutions and the role of risk and blame in shaping criminal law and the practices of the criminal justice system.

Criminal Law

Reconstructing Criminal Law provides a radical and stimulating alternative to the standard black letter criminal law text. The authors analyse central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it, and employ a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective to give insights into the current state of the law. A comprehe nsive resource--it contains extracts that cover a wide range of materials from historical, political, sociological and philosophical sources and discusses offences considered to be at the margins of criminal law. It also offers an important practical element whereby students and teachers can attempt to answer the questions that the criminal justice system confronts on a daily basis.

Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (Law in Context)

Politics & Social Sciences

Lacey, Nicola

Quick, Oliver

Social Sciences

Butterworths

Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (Law in Context)

Since the publication of the first edition, this textbook has offered one of the most distinctive and innovative approaches to the study of criminal law. Looking at both traditional and emerging areas, such as public order offences and corporate manslaughter, it offers a broad and thorough perspective on the subject. Material is organised thematically and is clearly signposted at the beginning of each section to allow the student to navigate successfully through the different fields. This fourth edition looks at topical issues such as policing, the Serious Crime Act 2007, and reform of the Fraud Act 2006. Relevant case law and extracts from the most topical and engaging debates on the subject give the subject immediacy. The book is essential for both undergraduate and postgraduate study of criminal law and justice.

Cambridge University Press

Reconstructing Criminal Law provides a radical and stimulating alternative to the standard black letter criminal law text. The authors analyse central aspects of criminal law in the context of the assumptions surrounding it, and employ a number of critical approaches, including a feminist perspective to give insights into the current state of the law. A comprehensive resource - it contains extracts that cover a wide range of materials from historical, political, sociological and philosophical sources and discusses offences considered to be at the margins of criminal law. It also offers an important practical element whereby students and teachers can attempt to answer the questions that the criminal justice system confronts on a daily basis.

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Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice)

Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (Law in Context)

Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (Law in Context)

Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (Law in Context)

Lacey, Wells and Quick Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials (Law in Context)