This article analyzes the criteria to determine when a company has failed to meet it is duty to manage the risks of bribery that arise over the course of it is economic activity. Special emphasis has been placed on the establishment of requirements for identifying such risks with the purpose of being able to adopt measures to counteract them later. The article analyzes comparative experience, both in relation to the technical guidelines that come from compliance studies, as well as the studies of criminology of corporate crime. Those experiences are explored to identify a series of structural and cultural variables that would predict the commission of crimes and, therefore, require their identification by the company.

This article analyzes the possible political-criminal benefits associated with the admission of a restorative strategy in the area of corporate criminal liability. To this end, certain shortcomings detected by the specialized literature are addressed, which would be associated with a strategy of reaction to corporate criminality that focuses exclusively on the imposition of disabling sanctions for corporations. In this respect, we will delve into the problem of the lack of knowledge of fundamental interests for the resolution of the conflict, especially that of the stakeholders, and the problem of the possible ineffectiveness of such a strategy in terms of reducing this form of criminality. Then, possible solutions to face the detected problems will be studied, distinguishing between a “reparative” and a “restorative” strategy to determine why the latter could be particularly ben...

This article analyzes the possible political-criminal benefits associated with the admission of a restorative strategy in the area of corporate criminal liability. To this end, certain shortcomings detected by the specialized literature are addressed, which would be associated with a strategy of reaction to corporate criminality that focuses exclusively on the imposition of disabling sanctions for corporations. In this respect, we will delve into the problem of the lack of knowledge of fundamental interests for the resolution of the conflict, especially that of the stakeholders, and the problem of the possible ineffectiveness of such a strategy in terms of reducing this form of criminality. Then, possible solutions to face the detected problems will be studied, distinguishing between a “reparative” and a “restorative” strategy to determine why the latter could be particularly ben...

This article analyzes the criteria to determine when a company has failed to meet it is duty to manage the risks of bribery that arise over the course of it is economic activity. Special emphasis has been placed on the establishment of requirements for identifying such risks with the purpose of being able to adopt measures to counteract them later. The article analyzes comparative experience, both in relation to the technical guidelines that come from compliance studies, as well as the studies of criminology of corporate crime. Those experiences are explored to identify a series of structural and cultural variables that would predict the commission of crimes and, therefore, require their identification by the company.

This article analyzes the criteria to determine when a company has failed to meet it is duty to manage the risks of bribery that arise over the course of it is economic activity. Special emphasis has been placed on the establishment of requirements for identifying such risks with the purpose of being able to adopt measures to counteract them later. The article analyzes comparative experience, both in relation to the technical guidelines that come from compliance studies, as well as the studies of criminology of corporate crime. Those experiences are explored to identify a series of structural and cultural variables that would predict the commission of crimes and, therefore, require their identification by the company.

This article analyzes the possible political-criminal benefits associated with the admission of a restorative strategy in the area of corporate criminal liability. To this end, certain shortcomings detected by the specialized literature are addressed, which would be associated with a strategy of reaction to corporate criminality that focuses exclusively on the imposition of disabling sanctions for corporations. In this respect, we will delve into the problem of the lack of knowledge of fundamental interests for the resolution of the conflict, especially that of the stakeholders, and the problem of the possible ineffectiveness of such a strategy in terms of reducing this form of criminality. Then, possible solutions to face the detected problems will be studied, distinguishing between a “reparative” and a “restorative” strategy to determine why the latter could be particularly ben...