Swedish criminal law does not allow for corporate criminal liability as it is built on the
basic principle of personal criminal liability, meaning that only private individuals are
considered able to possess criminal liability and consequently commit crimes. However, a
corporation may be subject to corporate fines and other sanctions if a crime has been committed
during the corporation’s operations. Corporate fines are the closest equivalent to
corporate criminal liability under Swedish law, which sole purposes is punitive although it
has been deemed impossible to categorize corporate fines as a punishment in the strictest
sense. This article will further explain the design of corporate fines today, the problems
resulting from corporations not being able to possess criminal liability as well as the proposed
changes to corporate fines from a critical perspective.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:36366 |
| Date | 02 December 2019 |
| Creators | Näs, Elvira, Nyman, Michael |
| Publisher | Universität Leipzig, University of Miami |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-362657, qucosa:36265 |
Page generated in 0.0022 seconds