CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES
AUTHOR – DV. SHRUTHI & DV. LAYA, STUDENTS AT CHRIST UNIVERSITY, BANGALORE
BEST CITATION – DV. SHRUTHI & DV. LAYA, CORPORATE AND INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (1) OF 2024, PG. 1589-1597, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.
INTRODUCTION: Crime knows no borders in our increasingly interconnected world (Keith, 2010).
What is Corporate and Individual Criminal Liability for International Crimes? Corporate criminal liability for international crimes – The term “corporate criminal liability for international crimes” describes a company’s legal responsibility for crimes like crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. This newly developed field of law deals with the accountability of companies for their direct or indirect participation in the commission of such crimes. It brings up difficult issues about human rights, corporate governance, and the worldwide confluence of ethics and business. An important aspect of this trend is the role of corporations in white-collar criminality and the consequences it has on the punishment of this particular wrongdoing, a logical reaction to this phenomenon seems to be, as has happened for that matter in torts law, to sanction corporations for the wrongdoing for which they are responsible, logical thought to this solution may be may be that it does not take into account the traditional hesitation of criminal law and criminal lawyers with regard to change[1]. Determining the extent of accountability and guaranteeing efficient enforcement procedures across jurisdictions continue to be difficult tasks, nonetheless.
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