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Corporate criminal liability : federal law and prosecutorial discretion issues / Brandon P. Burton, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law, crime and law enforcement.
- Law, Crime and Law Enforcement
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White collar crimes.
- Corporations--Corrupt practices.
- Corporations.
- Criminal liability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (98 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Novinka, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A corporation is criminally liable for the federal crimes its employees or agents commit in its interest. Corporate officers, employees, and agents are individually liable for the crimes they commit, for the crimes they conspire to commit, for the foreseeable crimes their co-conspirators commit, for the crimes whose commission they aid and abet, and for the crimes whose perpetrators they assist after the fact. Individual criminal statutes, Justice Department policies, and the Sentencing Guidelines largely dictate the circumstances under which, and the extent to which, agents, employees, corpor
- Contents:
- ""CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY: FEDERAL LAW AND PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION ISSUES""; ""CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY: FEDERAL LAW AND PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION ISSUES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY: AN OVERVIEW OF FEDERAL LAW""; ""SUMMARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""ENTITIES SUBJECT TO CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY""; ""SCOPE OF AUTHORITY""; ""IMPUTED INTENT AND KNOWLEDGE""; ""LIABILITY OF OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, ACCOMPLICES, AND CONSPIRATORS""; ""PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION""
- ""CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS""""SENTENCING GUIDELINES""; ""Chapter 2: PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION IN THE CONTEXT OF CORPORATE ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ENTERPRISE LIABILITY""; ""ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE AND WORK PRODUCT PROTECTION""; ""DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL MEMORANDA AND RELATED MATTERS""; ""INDEX""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 4, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-63117-725-7
- OCLC:
- 916951616
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