Skepticism about Corporate Punishment Revisited
Sarch, Alexander (2019) Skepticism about Corporate Punishment Revisited In: The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 213-238. ISBN 978-3-030-22811-8
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Abstract
Some societies used to impose liability on inanimate objects, a practice we’d now regard as silly and confused. When we punish corporations today, are we making similar mistakes? Here I consider some important sources of philosophical skepticism about imposing criminal liability on corporations, and I argue that they admit of answers, which places punishing corporations on stronger footing than punishing inanimate objects. First, I consider the eligibility challenge, which asserts that corporations are not the right kind of thing to be punished. Second, the reductionist challenge insists that corporate culpability always reduces to individual culpability. I suggest that progress can be made in addressing these challenges by asking the right law-focused questions and attending to recent developments in criminal law theory and moral philosophy.
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Divisions : | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Law | |||||||||
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Date : | 3 December 2019 | |||||||||
DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22811-8 | |||||||||
OA Location : | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22811-8#about | |||||||||
Copyright Disclaimer : | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 | |||||||||
Depositing User : | James Marshall | |||||||||
Date Deposited : | 21 Feb 2020 13:51 | |||||||||
Last Modified : | 21 Feb 2020 13:51 | |||||||||
URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/853817 |
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