CONCEPT OF LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS IN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Cover Image

CONCEPT OF LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS IN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
CONCEPT OF LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS IN CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Selma Otuzbir-Mecan
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law
Published by: INTERNACIONALNI UNIVERZITET TRAVNIK
Keywords: Legal person; criminal law; the liability of legal persons;

Summary/Abstract: With the introduction of corporate liability in criminal law, the same rank in a significant number of countries in which the law provides for liability of legal persons in accordance with a number of documents of the Council of Europe, European Union, United Nations. Since the state is possible to introduce liability for legal persons, the requirements are based on the increase of crimes committed with activities of legal persons, as well as the difficulties that are based on the complexity of the organizational structure of the legal entity of the identification responsible for the criminal. To consider and that only punishment individuals to such a perpetrator can be easily compensated by a legal person, in whose name and whose behalf the offense. The criminal legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted the accessory liability legal persons for criminal offenses, according to which the liability of legal persons is based on the responsibility of physical person, acting in the name and for the account or benefit of a legal person. In the following work will be presented base and limits of liability of legal persons.

  • Issue Year: 5/2017
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 96-105
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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