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Criminal Law Sanctions Against Legal Persons (A Jogi Szemelyekkel Szemben Alkalmazhato Buntetojogi Jogkovetkezmenyek)

NCJ Number
186760
Journal
Jogtudomanyi Kozlony Dated: 2000 Pages: 230-240
Author(s)
Ferene Santha
Date Published
2000
Length
11 pages
Annotation
The author undertakes to exhaust the existing and possible system of criminal law sanctions in Hungary that can be taken against legal persons.
Abstract
In the first part of the study, the author presents the scope of criminal law sanctions against legal persons and also their advantages and disadvantages in the field of continental and Anglo-Saxon legal systems. The second part of the study analyzes Hungarian legal regulation. In the Hungarian legal system, civil and administrative law imposes sanctions against those behaviors and contains legal consequences which can be found in criminal law in other legal systems. In the last part of the study, the author suggests questions that have to be addressed to regulate the responsibility of legal persons in the field of criminal law. 11 references and 29 footnotes