Criminal liability of legal entities in Anglo-American law

Abstract

The article discusses the institute of corporate criminal liability in common law countries. The author analyses English, American, Canadian and Australian model of corporate criminal liability, including brief historical overview. The first part of the paper focuses on analyzing legal solutions concerning the way criminal liability is attributed to the corporation and the system of criminal sanctions against the corporation. Then, the authors makes arguments about advantages and disadvantages of different models, and concludes the joint analysis of Anglo - American legal systems by emphasizing the trend of introducing solutions which leads to adopting of subjective autonomous liability of corporations.

Članak je posvećen razmatranju instituta krivične odgovornosti pravnog lica u zemljama angloameričke pravne tradicije. Autor analizira engleski, američki, kanadski i australijski model odgovornosti korporacija za krivična dela, uz kratak osvrt na njihov istorijski razvoj. U središnjem delu rada razmatraju se pozitivno-pravna rešenja kojima se regulišu materijalno-pravni aspekti posmatranog instituta - uslovi odgovornosti pravnog lica za krivično delo, odnos odgovornosti odgovornog i pravnog lica i sistem krivičnih sankcija. Konačno, autor analizira sličnosti i razlike razmatranih modela i ukazuje na tendencije razvoja instituta krivične odgovornosti pravnog lica.