Corporations and Criminal Responsibility / Edition 2

by Celia Wells

Overview

Increasing rates of deaths and injuries at work and accidents in transportation prompt calls for prosecution of corporations. Should corporations be punished? This book draws on philosophical, cultural, and psychological factors in discussing the criminal liability of corporations. Justifications for criminal punishment and the underlying bases of criminal responsibility are described in the context of corporate activity and the systems of regulation and control of corporate harm, though other fields of legislation are contrasted with conventional enforcement of criminal laws. Public perception of corporate harms is also explored from a number of perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198267935
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/02/2001
Series:	Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Celia Wells is professor of law at Cardiff University where she has taught and researched since 1986. In 2001 she held a visiting position as PriceWaterhouseCoopers Legal Chair in Women and the Law at the University of Sydney. Her research has mainly focused on criminal law, in particular the criminal liability of corporations (Corporations and Criminal Responsibility 1993 (OUP)). Reflecting her interest in issues of risk and blame, Celia Wells has also published Negotiating Tragedy (1995) a study of the law relating to disasters. With Nicola Lacey, she is co-author of Reconstructing Criminal Law (2nd edition 1998), a student text which draws on a wide range of contextual material and adopts an explicitly feminist perspective.

Previous appointments-University of North London 1973-5
University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1977-86
Cardiff University 1986.

Table of Contents

1. Safety and Public Welfare2. The role of criminal law3. Attribution of responsibility4. Criminal responsibility and the corporate entity5. Corporate liability in England and Wales6. Corporate manslaughter7. Comparative and international solutions8. The responsible corporationBibliographyIndex