Bridging the Theoretical Gap: The Search for a Realist Model of Corporate Criminal Liability

Clough, Jonathan

doi:10.1007/s10609-007-9040-y

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“…For corporations, the detailed provisions set out in Part 2.5 of the Criminal Code (Cth) would normally apply, allowing recklessness of a corporation to be proved more indirectly from a range of organisational dynamics including corporate culture (Clough, 2007;Clough, 2017;Clough and Mulhern, 2002).…”

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‘Clumsy and flawed in many respects’: Australia’s abhorrent violent material legislation

Nolan¹,

Dalla-Pozza²

2022

Rethinking Social Media and Extremism

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Section: The Failure To Remove Offencementioning

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‘Clumsy and flawed in many respects’: Australia’s abhorrent violent material legislation

Nolan¹,

Dalla-Pozza²

2022

Rethinking Social Media and Extremism

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“…Corporate culture is defined in the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 Part 2.5 as 'an attitude, policy, rule, course of conduct or practice existing within the body corporate generally or in the part of the body corporate in which the relevant activities takes place'. The underlying idea of 'corporate culture' is to cover situations where there is a difference between an organisation's formal or written rules and its practices (Clough 2007 Although corporate culture is regarded as more radical and innovative, the concepts of negligence and corporate culture intersect. Negligence requires a failure to fulfil a legal duty of care, whilst, realistically, in the bulk of cases of institutional child sexual abuse, corporate culture requires the failure to create or maintain a corporate culture that would not tolerate or lead to the commission of child sexual assault.…”

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Criminalising Institutional Failures to Prevent, Identify or React to Child Sexual Abuse

Crofts

2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Although there is increasing academic recognition of corporations as criminogenic, the criminal legal system has demonstrated difficulties in conceptualising corporate culpability. The current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse provides ample evidence of why organisations can and should be criminalised for systemic failures. I demonstrate that the emphasis upon individualistic subjective culpability by the criminal legal system does not adequately encapsulate the institutional failings detailed before the Royal Commission. Whilst mandatory reporting offences are important, these offences do not adequately respond to the kinds of organisational failings identified by the Royal Commission. I argue in favour of developing a new institutional offence constructed upon realist concepts of negligence and/or corporate culture that recognises that organisations are capable of wrongdoing and sufficiently blameworthy to justify the imposition of criminal sanctions. I conclude by arguing that the expressive role of criminal law justifies and requires the criminalisation of this kind of organisational wrongdoing.

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“…Hierdie wetgewing gee erkenning aan die belangrike werklikheid dat die besluitnemingsprosesse in die moderne korporatiewe entiteit gefragmenteerd is. Namate die regs-57 Archibald, Jull & Roach 2004:385-388;Laing 2005:107;Clough 2007:286-289. 58 Department of Justice of Canada 2003Laing 2005:108.…”

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“…58 Department of Justice of Canada 2003Laing 2005:108. 59 Laing 2005Archibald, Jull & Roach 2004:378-385;Clough 2007:289-293. 60 Laing 2005 persoon "groei", raak meer mense verbonde aan die regspersoon by die neem van besluite betrokke en word die besluitnemingsbevoegdhede van 'n enkele persoon minder.…”

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Die strafregtelike aanspreeklikheid van regspersone: Lesse uit Kanada

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2016

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Hierdie bydrae ondersoek die grondslag vir die strafregtelike aanspreeklikheid van regspersone in Kanada in 'n poging om moontlike lesse vir die Suid-Afrikaanse reg daaruit te neem. Die Kanadese benadering gee erkenning aan die gefragmenteerde aard van korporatiewe besluitneming én aan die realiteit dat die kollektiewe gedrag van verskeie persone op verskillende vlakke van die korporatiewe hiërargie die misdadige gedrag kan veroorsaak. Voorts hoef die gedrags-en skuldelemente nie aan 'n enkeling toegeskryf te word nie. Die gedrag van die korporatiewe verteenwoordiger kan die handelingselement vorm, terwyl die skuldelement by die bestuur kan lê. Hierdie benadering, hoewel nie volkome 'realisties' van aard nie, verreken tog die aard van moderne regspersone heelwat beter as tradisionele individualistiese benaderings tot die strafregtelike aanspreeklikheid van regspersone. The criminal liability of juristic persons: Lessons from Canada This contribution investigates the basis for the criminal liability of juristic persons in Canada in an attempt to gain lessons for South Africa. The Canadian position acknowledges both the fragmented nature of corporate decision-making and the reality that the collective efforts of a number of corporate role players may cause criminal conduct. Furthermore, the conduct and fault elements of corporate criminal misconduct do not have to be found in one individual. The conduct of a representative of the corporate entity may be regarded as the conduct of the corporation, whilst the fault requirement may be found to be the level of management. This approach, although not entirely 'realistic', takes into account the nature of modern corporate entities much better than traditional individualistic approaches to corporate criminal liability.

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Bridging the Theoretical Gap: The Search for a Realist Model of Corporate Criminal Liability

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

‘Clumsy and flawed in many respects’: Australia’s abhorrent violent material legislation

‘Clumsy and flawed in many respects’: Australia’s abhorrent violent material legislation

Criminalising Institutional Failures to Prevent, Identify or React to Child Sexual Abuse

Die strafregtelike aanspreeklikheid van regspersone: Lesse uit Kanada

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