![]() ![]() This article analyses a recent policy shift in the UK towards criminalising corporate failures to prevent serious and organised crimes that occur within their organisational structures and business operations. ![]() What does this mean? Will we ever see true ‘corporate accountability’ or is corporate support for accountability mechanisms more cynical? Are multinationals using ‘corporate accountability’ in the literal sense, in order to calculate and optimize exposure to potentially risky activities and manage civil society backlash? Is support for international criminal law nothing but the deployment of ‘canned morality’ aimed at bolstering their legitimacy in an increasingly corporate-governed world, and getting angry citizens off the streets, back home onto the sofa to Netflix & chill? It even seems, as if multinational corporations themselves (or the persons that run them) are on board with - the idea at least - of corporate criminal liability in international law. Can we imagine Shell in the dock, at the International Criminal Court? It certainly seems as if many people around the world whose health, livelihoods and environments are affected by the extractive industries, would like to see this happen. ![]()
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