Criminalising Institutional Failures to Prevent, Identify or React to Child Sexual Abuse

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dc.contributor.authorCrofts, P.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-20T16:34:03Z
dc.date.available2017-12-20T16:34:03Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractAlthough there is increasing academic recognition of corporations as criminogenic, the criminal legal system has demonstrated difficulties in conceptualising corporate culpability. The current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse provides ample evidence of why organisations can and should be criminalised for systemic failures. I demonstrate that the emphasis upon individualistic subjective culpability by the criminal legal system does not adequately encapsulate the institutional failings detailed before the Royal Commission. Whilst mandatory reporting offences are important, these offences do not adequately respond to the kinds of organisational failings identified by the Royal Commission. I argue in favour of developing a new institutional offence constructed upon realist concepts of negligence and/or corporate culture that recognises that organisations are capable of wrongdoing and sufficiently blameworthy to justify the imposition of criminal sanctions. I conclude by arguing that the expressive role of criminal law justifies and requires the criminalisation of this kind of organisational wrongdoing.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCrofts, P. (2017). Criminalising Institutional Failures to Prevent, Identify or React to Child Sexual Abuse. University of Technology Sydney, Australiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/download/421/321
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3663
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Technology Sydney, Australiaen_US
dc.subjectSystemic failureen_US
dc.subjectcorporate cultureen_US
dc.subjectnegligenceen_US
dc.subjectinstitutional abuseen_US
dc.subjectAustraliaen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.titleCriminalising Institutional Failures to Prevent, Identify or React to Child Sexual Abuseen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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