TY - JOUR
T1 - The criminalisation of corporate psychopaths
T2 - a holistic inquiry
AU - Danagher, Luke
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The destructive harm caused by corporate psychopaths has become an area of considerable interest to medical professionals, lawyers and philosophers. This paper analyses contemporary research forwarded by these distinct groups in order to determine if, in light of current scientific knowledge on this mental disorder, corporate psychopaths can be held fully responsible for their crimes, and if so, on what basis? In combining the often-disparate conclusions reached by the above groups in relation to the criminalisation of corporate psychopaths, this paper makes a significant contribution to the field by presenting novel methods of holding corporate psychopaths morally culpable for their crimes, as previous research of this kind has focused on clinical psychopaths, who tend to be involved in violent offences.
AB - The destructive harm caused by corporate psychopaths has become an area of considerable interest to medical professionals, lawyers and philosophers. This paper analyses contemporary research forwarded by these distinct groups in order to determine if, in light of current scientific knowledge on this mental disorder, corporate psychopaths can be held fully responsible for their crimes, and if so, on what basis? In combining the often-disparate conclusions reached by the above groups in relation to the criminalisation of corporate psychopaths, this paper makes a significant contribution to the field by presenting novel methods of holding corporate psychopaths morally culpable for their crimes, as previous research of this kind has focused on clinical psychopaths, who tend to be involved in violent offences.
KW - Corporate psychopath
KW - criminalisation
KW - moral culpability
KW - neuroscience and law
KW - white-collar crime
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158899270&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10345329.2023.2207233
DO - 10.1080/10345329.2023.2207233
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158899270
SN - 1034-5329
VL - 35
SP - 377
EP - 396
JO - Current Issues in Criminal Justice
JF - Current Issues in Criminal Justice
IS - 3
ER -