RT Article
T1 Repositioning the corporate criminal: comparing and contrasting corporate criminal liability in Canada and Finland
JF International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
VO 42
IS 2/3
SP 215
OP 231
A1 Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne
A2 Bittle, Steven
A2 Lähteenmäki, Liisa
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1753641136
AB Over the past two decades, a number of states in the Global North have introduced laws aimed at holding corporations criminally liable. While there is an important literature examining these legal regimes there is a paucity of comparative work interrogating the different political struggles and processes leading to corporate criminal liability (CCL) legislation. This paper addresses this lacuna by comparing and contrasting the development of CCL in Canada and Finland. By scrutinizing the law reform processes in each jurisdiction, the paper documents how CCL emerged under different conjunctures in each country, yet were shaped similarly by hegemonic beliefs in the non-criminal status of corporation, the importance of advancing private enterprise and established jurisprudence. Of particular note are the ways in which dominant notions of legal individualism and the universal legal subject constrained legislative efforts to hold corporations criminally to account therein preventing corporate misconduct from being processed as “real” crimes.
K1 corporate crime
K1 corporate criminal liability
K1 crimes of the powerful
K1 Criminal law
K1 Law reform
K1 transpositionality
DO 10.1080/01924036.2017.1295396