- AutorIn
- Elvira Näs
- Michael Nyman
- Titel
- Corporate criminal liability in Sweden
- Untertitel
- Corporate fines from a critical perspectives
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-363669
- Quellenangabe
- Compliance Elliance Journal - 5 (2019),2, Trend Towards a New Punitivity? Corporate Criminal Liability in Focus
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Jahrgang: 5
Heft: 2
Seiten: 38-48 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- Abstract (EN)
- Swedish criminal law does not allow for corporate criminal liability as it is built on the basic principle of personal criminal liability, meaning that only private individuals are considered able to possess criminal liability and consequently commit crimes. However, a corporation may be subject to corporate fines and other sanctions if a crime has been committed during the corporation’s operations. Corporate fines are the closest equivalent to corporate criminal liability under Swedish law, which sole purposes is punitive although it has been deemed impossible to categorize corporate fines as a punishment in the strictest sense. This article will further explain the design of corporate fines today, the problems resulting from corporations not being able to possess criminal liability as well as the proposed changes to corporate fines from a critical perspective.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- neue Strafbarkeit, Compliance, strafrechtliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- new punitivity, compliance, corporate criminal liability, corporate criminal responsibility
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 343
- Publizierende Institution
- Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
- University of Miami, Miami
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- angenommene Version / Postprint / Autorenversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-363669
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 02.12.2019
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch