Revisiting the Question of Imputation in Corporate Criminal Law

Constantine N. Nana (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

365 Seiten

2010 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-1919-0 (ISBN)

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It is now trite knowledge that corporate criminal liability is laced with a large number of contradictions that seriously threaten its legitimacy. This book demonstrates that these contradictions may be avoided if courts consistently refer to an adequate mechanism of imputation. It proposes parameters for evaluating mechanisms of imputation and shows how an adequate mechanism may be determined.This distinctive book provides students and practitioners with an exposition of the current substantive and procedural corporate criminal law and considers other ways of regulating the activities of corporations than using the criminal law. It also addresses the distinction between internal knowledge and external knowledge with reference to pedigreed and non-pedigreed rules and shows how the concept of discursive dilemma may be employed to aggregate the acts and intents of agents for the purposes of imputing these acts and intents to accused corporations and holding them liable.This book is highly recommended for students of criminology, law and business. It should also be of interest to defence counsels, prosecutors and regulatory agencies that either represent and advise corporate defendants or seek to hold corporations accountable for the breach of criminal law standards.

Constantine N. Nana holds a PhD (Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen), LLM (Johannesburg) and an LLB, Maitrise and DEA (Cameroon). He has held teaching and research positions in Cameroon, South Africa and United Kingdom and also has experience as a legal consultant on money laundering. He has also published a number of papers and has presented at conferences across the world on a wide variety of issues, including the human rights of corporations and the harms of prosecution in corporate cases.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2010
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Handelsrecht
ISBN-10	1-4438-1919-0 / 1443819190
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-1919-0 / 9781443819190
Zustand	Neuware