Structural versus factual liability? Philosophy and criminal liability of legal persons

The text reflects, with the aim of complementing previous contributions, on the ultimate basis of the criminal liability of legal persons, an issue that has gone from being marginal to occupying a central place in the debate on the dogmatics of criminal law. The debate focuses on philosophical and d...

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Autor: Feijoo Sánchez, Bernardo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Perú
Recursos:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/32033
Acesso em linha:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/derechoysociedad/article/view/32033
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Responsabilidad penal de personas jurídicas
Responsabilidad
Pena y delito corporativos
Culpabilidad por el carácter
Cumplimiento normativo
Cultura de cumplimiento
Corporate Criminal Liability
Corporate Crime and Punishment
Character-Based Guilt
Compliance
Compliance Culture
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Resumo:The text reflects, with the aim of complementing previous contributions, on the ultimate basis of the criminal liability of legal persons, an issue that has gone from being marginal to occupying a central place in the debate on the dogmatics of criminal law. The debate focuses on philosophical and dogmatic aspects, highlighting Professor Juan Pablo Mañalich Raffo’s proposal of “culpability by character”, which attributes criminal liability to legal persons based on their “nature”. It sets out the agreement, but also the disagreement, with this innovative proposal, in particular because the emphasis on the structural defects of organisations as a basis for liability would imply a detachment from concrete facts.The text argues that in order to address the complexity of corporate liability, structural elements should be combined with specific facts as the object of imputation, advocating a model that links criminality to organisational characteristics and not just to corporate culture or character. This view highlights the implementation of criminal compliance management systems as an exclusion from corporate liability understood as structural liability.