CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Corporate Criminal Liability

Corporate Criminal Liability

Introduction

Following are some of the situations under which corporations are liable of criminal act. Thus they have to handle the judicial decisions (Clinard, 1980).

Con

It's a scenario in which the company gets money from the customer by providing false claims about the returns or any benefits that actually doesn't exist but they are only intended towards getting the possession or money of people illegally.

Punishable insolvency

If the organizations contest for insolvency and the intention behind it remains that of fraud and deliberately getting rid liabilities. The court decides and investigates the wrong intention and scenario behind the case and thus punishes the corporate entity.

Against Tax and Social Security

The companies are also criminally liable if they try to save tax by illegal means and try to misbalance the social security. There are myriad companies that try cheat and follow different practices and tricks that save their taxes.

Certain tricks involve showing higher amount of expenses for different financial activities that automatically decreases the tax liabilities of the business.

Against the rights of workers

If the organization operates in such a manner that it poses danger to the life of workers t makes the organizations liable.

In myriad developing countries, they force the workers to do works that involves heavy risk of life that includes working near dangerous chemicals without any safety measures. Other examples include discrimination in works between genders, race and different other sort of variables.

Damage to Consumers

The Code consists of 146 articles that blend and clear up the legislation linked to many events in which the consumer is involved as an active or passive. It held companies liable if the company work against it.

A company can be held responsible if they mislead customers in such a way that it produces ...