Corporations and Criminal Responsibility - Rilegato

Wells, Celia

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0198254385 ISBN 13: 9780198254386

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1993

Riassunto

Public tolerance of corporate harms is evaporating: deaths and injuries at work and transport accidents increasingly prompt a call for prosecution of a corporation. This book addresses the question of whether corporations should be punished, and draws upon philosophical, cultural, and psychological factors in considering arguments about the criminal liability of corporations. Justifications for criminal punishments and the underlying bases of criminal responsibility are described in the context of corporate activities, and the system of regulation and control of corporate harm through, for example, health and safety legislation, is examined and contrasted with conventional enforcement of criminal laws. Public perception of corporate harms are explored from a number of perspectives including the institutional framework of inquests and public enquiries, and the trial of P&O for manslaughter charges following the "Herald of Free Enterprise" disaster are fully analyzed.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Celia Wells is professor of law at Cardiff University where she has taught and researched since 1986. In 2001 she held a visiting position as PriceWaterhouseCoopers Legal Chair in Women and the Law at the University of Sydney. Her research has mainly focused on criminal law, in particular the criminal liability of corporations (Corporations and Criminal Responsibility 1993 (OUP)). Reflecting her interest in issues of risk and blame, Celia Wells has also published Negotiating Tragedy (1995) a study of the law relating to disasters. With Nicola Lacey, she is co-author of Reconstructing Criminal Law (2nd edition 1998), a student text which draws on a wide range of contextual material and adopts an explicitly feminist perspective.

Previous appointments-University of North London 1973-5
University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1977-86
Cardiff University 1986.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0198254385
• ISBN 13: 9780198254386
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 182