This edited collection sheds light on the evolution of corporate financial crime, exploring a myriad of offenses ranging from money laundering and fraud to market manipulation and bribery.
This edited collection sheds light on the evolution of corporate financial crime, exploring a myriad of offenses ranging from money laundering and fraud to market manipulation and bribery.
Considering and assessing the models used in national law to determine the culpability of corporations, this book compares the different schemes used to address financial and other organisational crimes committed by same. Through a combination of history, law, and global perspectives, its chapters dissect landmark cases and provide detailed analyses of money laundering, fraud, market manipulation, manslaughter, and legislative responses in various locations around the world. This comparative approach offers a unique lens, exploring diverse jurisdictions and shedding light on global patterns of corporate wrongdoing. By critically assessing the challenges of prosecuting economic crimes on a large scale, the collection proposes innovative solutions, including the introduction of 'failure to prevent' offences.
Corporate Criminal Liability and Sanctions: Current Trends and Policy Changes is a valuable resource for academics, professionals, and anyone intrigued by the ever-evolving realm of white-collar and corporate wrongdoing. It will appeal to scholars across the fields of law, criminology, sociology, and economics, as well as those professionally engaged in corruption and regulation such as solicitors, barristers, businessmen and public servants.
Introduction,
1. Corporate Compliance Choices in the Italian Legal
System: Organisational Models and Internal Investigations,
2. Too Big to
Convict? Lessons from Canadas Statutory Diversion Regime and a Political
Scandal,
3. Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Violence Victims Rights in
Italy: A Long and Winding Road,
4. Corporate Criminal Liability Lessons
from Two Different Nordic Solutions,
5. Criminal Finances Act 2017:
Unexplained Wealth Orders,
6. Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail? A Critical
Comparative Commentary on the Enforcement of Corporate Economic Crime in the
US and the UK,
7. What Lessons Can Be Learnt from Americas Use of
Competition Law in the Enforcement of Financial Crime?,
8. Strengthening
International Law Enforcement Cooperation INTERPOL and Its Global Fight
against Economic and Financial Crime,
9. Institutional and Substantive
Responses to Economic and Transnational Organised Crime: An African Regional
Perspective,
10. Criminal Liability for Breach of Fiduciary Duties within the
Financial Market Renaissance of Broadly Worded Catch-All Provisions?
Michala Meiselles is Senior Law Lecturer at Derby Universitys Law School and an UNESCO Consultant on education and law.
Nicholas Ryder is Professor of Financial Crime at Cardiff Universitys School of Law and Politics.
Arianna Visconti is Associate Professor of Business Criminal Law and Law & the Arts at the Universitą Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan).
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