Criminal Sanctions for Corporate Illegality

Corporate Criminal Liability

The Common Law: Vicarious Liability and the Development of Primary Liability UNLESS THE TERMS OF THE STATUTE INVOLVED SPECIFICALLY PROVIDE TO the contrary, the criminal responsibility of a company or corporation, as distinct from its officers or employees, falls to be determined by common law principles. Under original common law, a company could not be convicted for any criminal offence. The c...

"Unnatural deaths," criminal sanctions, and medical quality improvement in Japan.

Studying Discretion in the Processes that Generate Criminal Justice Sanctions

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Faking It: Criminal Sanctions and the Cost of Computer Intrusions

Thoroughly and consistently calculating losses from computer intrusions is a difficult endeavor because security incidents are characterized by intangible harms like interference with system availability and interference with the integrity of data. These harms can be difficult to translate into monetary terms. More easily measured are labor and hardware costs associated with repairing and resto...

Toward a Systematic Foundation for Identifying Evidence-based Criminal Justice Sanctions and their Relative Effectiveness

Nationally, there have been increased calls for evidence-based criminal justice policy. Despite considerable progress toward that objective, there still is no systematic, comparative foundation for assessing the relative effectiveness of diverse sanctions in achieving any of a range of goals. In this article, the importance of evidence-based policy and the critical research gaps that must be fi...