Corporate Crime and Plea Bargains
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12973745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uriel Procaccia (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author), Eyal Winter (0000-0002-4318-1759, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-133 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Ethics of Human Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-2545 • E-ISSN: 2194-6531 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/lehr-2017-0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2500110849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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
Business · Commit · Corporate crime · Criminal law · Criminal liability · Economics · Law and economics · Normative · Plea · Political science · Sociology · Stylized fact · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |