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In June 2010, the United States Supreme Court handed down a highly anticipated trilogy of decisions that altered white-collar criminal law by restricting the honest-services provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1346, to bribes and kickbacks. This development is the most recent one in the tumultuous existence...
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deontological theories of punishment. Building on this analysis, the Article reviews the doctrinal tools used to achieve the goal of …
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The Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore has been deeply involved in the teaching, research and practice of criminal law in Singapore since its early days. Pioneer members of the faculty developed teaching and resource materials which subsequent generations of scholars have built on....
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This article offers an overview of and commentary on the US approach to corporate prosecution and punishment. Though … whether that system actually takes corporate crime seriously. Corporate prosecutions, convictions, and punishment continue to … motivate continued debate over the prosecution and punishment of corporations …
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How law is interpreted and enforced at a particular historical moment reflects contemporary social concerns and prejudices. This paper investigates the nature of criminal sentencing in mid-nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. It finds that extralegal factors, namely place of conviction and several...
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This inquiry explores the question of transnational companies' criminal liability for international crimes, reviewing the current state of research in the field of international economic criminal law, a discipline that hitherto has received only scant analysis. Following some preliminary...
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This article examines how the ‘essentiality’ requirement can limit the exercise of the EU’s criminal law competence under Article 83(2) TFEU. Building on criminological research, and contextual and principled considerations, it argues for an evidence-based approach to the...
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A significant number of influential philosophical theorists of punishment argue that only those who enjoy the status of … punishment severity. The weaker the bond, the more lenient the punishment should be.Please note: The reference list on the …
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