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Model of attribution of criminal liability in the Nº 20.393 Act, that introduces the criminal liability of legal persons: culpability of the corporation, hetero-responsibility or breach-of-duty crime?

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  • Andrés Ortúzar Gjuranovic Egresado de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile
No. 16 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i16.29506

Abstract

The new Law Nº 20.393 introduced a completely new principle in the Chilean law system: societas delinquere potest. It is now possible to directly attribute criminal responsibility to legal persons, but only for the group of offenses covered by the Act. Because the Act requires that certain prerequisites be met for this type of responsibility to be applied, it is unclear whether the law actually changed the previously existing principle societas delinquere non potest. This article reviews three different models of attribution of criminal liability, examines which model is contained in the new law, and provides a new interpretation that accounts for the true innovation of Nº 20.393 Act.    

Keywords:

legal persons’ criminal liability, models of attribution of criminal liability, Nº 20.393 Act, breach of duty crimes

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Ortúzar Gjuranovic, A. (2012). Model of attribution of criminal liability in the Nº 20.393 Act, that introduces the criminal liability of legal persons: culpability of the corporation, hetero-responsibility or breach-of-duty crime?. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (16), pp. 195–257. https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i16.29506
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Revista de Estudios de la Justicia
Facultad de Derecho
Universidad de Chile
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