Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice) - Softcover

Wells, Celia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198259476 ISBN 13: 9780198259473

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This timely book looks at philosophical, cultural, and psychological factors to consider whether corporations should be made subject to criminal liability. Wells raises such issues as why it is difficult to convict a corporation of manslaughter and how corporations should best be punished. Public perceptions of transport disasters such as the capsize of The Herald of Free Enterprise are discussed, and the system of regulation and control of corporate harm is analyzed. This work will be of great interest to teachers, scholars, and advanced students of criminology, criminal law, and company law.

About this title

About the Author:

Celia Wells is professor of law at Cardiff University where she has taught and researched since 1986. In 2001 she held a visiting position as PriceWaterhouseCoopers Legal Chair in Women and the Law at the University of Sydney. Her research has mainly focused on criminal law, in particular the criminal liability of corporations (Corporations and Criminal Responsibility 1993 (OUP)). Reflecting her interest in issues of risk and blame, Celia Wells has also published Negotiating Tragedy (1995) a study of the law relating to disasters. With Nicola Lacey, she is co-author of Reconstructing Criminal Law (2nd edition 1998), a student text which draws on a wide range of contextual material and adopts an explicitly feminist perspective.

Previous appointments-University of North London 1973-5
University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1977-86
Cardiff University 1986.

Review:

"I was pleasantly suprised to find myself enjoying this thoughtful and thorough walk through the world of crimin"'

--Financial Adviser 29/01/2003

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0198259476
• ISBN 13: 9780198259473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192