The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the criminal responsibility of the company

Due to the possible adoption in Peru of the criminal responsibility for companies and of the corporate compliance programs, the author analyzes the position that the United States has adopted facing the acts of corruption abroad, which legal basis is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.In the present...

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Author: Gadea Benavides, Héctor
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:Perú
Institution:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repository:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/15590
Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/themis/article/view/15590
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Criminal Law
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Criminal Compliance
Legal person
corporate criminality
Derecho Penal
Persona jurídica
criminalidad corporativa
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Summary:Due to the possible adoption in Peru of the criminal responsibility for companies and of the corporate compliance programs, the author analyzes the position that the United States has adopted facing the acts of corruption abroad, which legal basis is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.In the present article, the author will do an study of this regulation, covering its scope, who are imputable by it and the possible situations that generate criminal responsibility. All of this developed over the position taken by the jurisprudence in notorious corruption scandals.In addition, the development of the effectiveness of the compliance figure will be studied as well as the implementation of incentives for the corporations to adopt prevention policies.