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The Criminal Liability Of Corporations And Other Groups: A Comparative View, L. H. Leigh
The Criminal Liability Of Corporations And Other Groups: A Comparative View, L. H. Leigh
Michigan Law Review
Briefly, three positions concerning corporate liability may be identified. First, there are systems of full corporate criminal liability, such as those in England and the United States. Second, there are systems that recognize only partial corporate criminal liability, for example Denmark, Belgium, and France. Finally, some systems do not permit such liability at all, or permit it only under the guise of administrative offenses. Italy and West Germany afford examples of this restrictive view of corporate liability.
This Article will sketch each of these positions in some detail, beginning, in Part I, with those systems that authorize full liability. Part …