This paper starts from a basic premise: During the last years, there have been multiple corruption cases that affected public administrations credibility, but also the one of the private sectors of the economy. Areas such as urban planning or public contracting have been prolix regarding the occurrence of criminal activities that undermine the proper functioning of the Public Administration and business activity based on ethics and mechanisms to improve organizations (public and private ones) by prematurely discovering illicit conduct and, in turn, identifying the individuals responsible for such acts. In the same way, for some companies, the verification of the effectiveness of the complaint channels in court contributes to corporate defenses and in achieving exemption from criminal responsibility. Therefore, from a technical perspective, guidelines and recommendations are offered from ...

This paper has as aim to link corporate crimes to corrupt behaviours and to the depreciation of criminal legal assets, human rights and national security. Provided that the enterprise management is responsible, diligent, ethical, based on compliance, enterprises will obtain the security understood as a broad concept. Notwithstanding, enterprises that have a bad governance, an unethical behaviour and a lack of diligence, may become a threat to national security and economic development of States. As a consequence, criminal compliance is related to the concepts of security and human rights in a competitive environment as well as in a world where the welfare state is shrinking.

This paper starts from a basic premise: During the last years, there have been multiple corruption cases that affected public administrations credibility, but also the one of the private sectors of the economy. Areas such as urban planning or public contracting have been prolix regarding the occurrence of criminal activities that undermine the proper functioning of the Public Administration and business activity based on ethics and mechanisms to improve organizations (public and private ones) by prematurely discovering illicit conduct and, in turn, identifying the individuals responsible for such acts. In the same way, for some companies, the verification of the effectiveness of the complaint channels in court contributes to corporate defenses and in achieving exemption from criminal responsibility. Therefore, from a technical perspective, guidelines and recommendations are offered ...

El presente trabajo de investigación tiene por finalidad analizar la vinculación de los fenómenos delincuenciales corporativos con conductas propias de la corrupción y el deterioro de los bienes jurídico-penales, los derechos humanos y la seguridad nacional. Si el management empresarial es responsable, diligente, ético con base en el cumplimiento normativo las empresas pueden contribuir al logro de la seguridad en sentido amplio. Por el contrario, las organizaciones que gestionen sus actividades desde el mal gobierno, la no ética y la falta de diligencia debida pueden convertirse en una amenaza para la seguridad y el desarrollo económico de los Estados democráticos. En consecuencia, el compliance no es cuestión ajena a nociones de seguridad y derechos humanos dentro de un mundo ultra competitivo en lo económico y en el que el Estado del bienestar se encuentra claramente en ret...

This paper starts from a basic premise: During the last years, there have been multiple corruption cases that affected public administrations credibility, but also the one of the private sectors of the economy. Areas such as urban planning or public contracting have been prolix regarding the occurrence of criminal activities that undermine the proper functioning of the Public Administration and business activity based on ethics and mechanisms to improve organizations (public and private ones) by prematurely discovering illicit conduct and, in turn, identifying the individuals responsible for such acts. In the same way, for some companies, the verification of the effectiveness of the complaint channels in court contributes to corporate defenses and in achieving exemption from criminal responsibility. Therefore, from a technical perspective, guidelines and recommendations are offered ...

This paper has as aim to link corporate crimes to corrupt behaviours and to the depreciation of criminal legal assets, human rights and national security. Provided that the enterprise management is responsible, diligent, ethical, based on compliance, enterprises will obtain the security understood as a broad concept. Notwithstanding, enterprises that have a bad governance, an unethical behaviour and a lack of diligence, may become a threat to national security and economic development of States. As a consequence, criminal compliance is related to the concepts of security and human rights in a competitive environment as well as in a world where the welfare state is shrinking.