De lege ferenda Proposals Developed in German Criminal Law to Punish Company Executives Who Fail to Prevent Crimes Committed by Subordinates

Commission by omission presents important difficulties as a mechanism to penalize corporate management bodies that violate their duties of organization, instruction, supervision or intervention. These difficulties are related to the legal requirements in terms of (quasi-)causality and intent. To ove...

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Autores: Contreras Chaimovich, Lautaro Camilo, Couso Salas, Jaime Rodolfo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/30858
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechopucp/article/view/30858
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Derecho penal de la empresa
Intervención delictiva en la empresa
Posición de garante de los directivos
Deber de intervención
Deberes de vigilancia
Corporate criminal law
Criminal intervention in business
Guarantor’s position of company executives
Duty to intervene
Duty of supervision
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Sumario:Commission by omission presents important difficulties as a mechanism to penalize corporate management bodies that violate their duties of organization, instruction, supervision or intervention. These difficulties are related to the legal requirements in terms of (quasi-)causality and intent. To overcome these obstacles, a sector of German criminal doctrine has proposed different alternatives de lege ferenda—in the form of criminal types different from those of improper omission—to punish the infringement of the aforementioned duties. The purpose of this article is to explain and critically assess these proposals.