Introducción
Author | Carlos Gómez-Jara Díez |
Profession | Profesor Asociado de Derecho Penal (U.A.M.) |
Pages | 15-17 |
Page 15
"Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?
...and by God, it ought to have both!" Edward First Baron Thurlow, Lord Chancellor of England (1731-1806)
Con esta frase sumamente gráfica se caracterizaba, hace ya más de doscientos aÒos, el clima que latía como trasfondo de la responsabilidad penal de las empresas. Quizá el lector espaÒol se sienta rápidamente identificado con aquellas palabras visionarias, preguntándose cómo puede darse la circunstancia de que en algunos ordenamientos exista la responsabilidad penal empresarial y en otros no. Ciertamente, las razones que motivan este trato diferenciado son numerosas y de gran calado1, como lo demuestra claramente el hecho, por ejemplo, de la repercusión mundial que ha tenido el procesamiento penal de la firma de auditoría Andersen2. Sin embargo, una comprensión de las características fundamentales de la responsabilidad penal empresarial en un ordenamiento que, como es el caso del estadounidense, lleva tratando con esta problemática de manera muy activa durante los últimos cien aÒos, ayudan enormemente a adoptar una perspectiva adecuada para enjuiciar en su debida medida la bondad y la justificación de dicha institución3.
Ello cobra especial relevancia en un momento como el actual, en el que en EspaÒa ñsiguiendo en parte el movimiento codificador de otros países europeos4ñ Page 16 se ha pretendido "abordar la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas" en la última reforma del Código penal5. En este sentido, resulta especialmente adecuado mirar más allá de las fronteras nacionales y observar cómo opera la responsabilidad penal empresarial al otro lado del Atlántico6. En efecto, de esta manera se podrá criticar o alabar con mayor fundamento la reforma realizada y/o proponer nuevas regulaciones basadas, en mayor o menor medida, en la experiencia estadounidense. Más aún; frente a una novel regulación necesitada de desarrollo, quizá puedan servir de guía las construcciones teóricas y prácticas existentes en aquél ordenamiento; todo ello, claro está, teniendo muy en cuenta las diferencias estructurales que existen entre ambos ordenamientos7.
En cualquier caso, la estructura de la presente monografía pretende servir de introducción a la regulación de la responsabilidad penal empresarial o corporativa en los EE.UU. ñen concreto: la denominada corporate criminal liabilityñ de tal manera que, por un lado, pueda servir...
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- La responsabilidad penal de las empresas en EEUU
- Abreviaturas
- Introducción
- La empresa: ¿una persona moral? Aportaciones de la ética empresarial
- Fundamentación de la responsabilidad penal empresarial: teorías de la pena y organización empresarial
- Modelos de atribución de responsabilidad penal empresarial
- Las directrices para imponer sentencias a organizaciones (organizational sentencing guidelines)
- La culpabilidad corporativa: principales propuestas contemporáneas
- Adenda : Manual de las directrices para imponer sentencias a organizaciones (organizational sentencing guidelines). Comentario introductorio
- Bibliografía
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