Corporate Crime and Plea Bargains

Procaccia, U. and Winter, E. (2017) Corporate Crime and Plea Bargains. Law and Ethics of Human Rights, 11 (1). pp. 119-133. ISSN 1938-2545

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Abstract

Corporate entities enjoy legal subjectivity in a variety of forms, but they are not human beings. Hence, their legal capacity to bear rights and obligations of their own is not universal. This article lays out a stylized model that explores, from a normative point of view, one of the limits that ought to be set on corporate capacity to act "as if" they had a human nature-the capacity to commit crime. Accepted wisdom states that corporate criminal liability is justified as a measure to deter criminal behavior. Our analysis supports this intuition in one subset of cases, but also reveals that deterrence might in fact be undermined in another subset of cases, especially in an environment saturated with plea bargains involving serious violations of the law. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2017.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Law and Ethics of Human Rights
Additional Information:
© 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3308
Subjects:
?? corporate capacitycorporate criminal liabilitycriminal deterrencestakeholderslawsociology and political science ??
ID Code:
126927
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Deposited On:
21 Nov 2018 16:04
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Yes
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Published
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11 Mar 2024 00:27