Corporate bodies and guilty minds [[electronic resource] ] : the failure of corporate criminal liability / / William S. Laufer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455583603321
• Autore: Laufer William S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-282-53732-6; 9786612537325; 0-226-47042-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 345.73/0268
• Soggetti: Criminal liability of juristic persons - United States; Corporation law - United States - Criminal provisions; Corporations - Corrupt practices - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The evolution of corporate criminal law -- Recognizing personhood -- Constructing fault -- Playing games -- Shifting blame -- Crafting a soul -- Making and unmaking the pessimist's account.
• Sommario/riassunto: We live in an era defined by corporate greed and malfeasance-one in which unprecedented accounting frauds and failures of compliance run rampant. In order to calm investor fears, revive perceptions of legitimacy in markets, and demonstrate the resolve of state and federal regulators, a host of reforms, high-profile investigations, and symbolic prosecutions have been conducted in response. But are they enough? In this timely work, William S. Laufer argues that even with recent legal reforms, corporate criminal law continues to be ineffective. As evidence, Laufer considers the failure of courts and legislatures to fashion liability rules that fairly attribute blame for organizations. He analyzes the games that corporations play to deflect criminal responsibility. And he also demonstrates how the exchange of cooperation for prosecutorial leniency and amnesty belies true law enforcement. But none of these factors, according to Laufer, trumps the fact that there is no single constituency or interest group that strongly ; and consistently advocates the importance and priority of corporate criminal liability. In the absence of a new standard of corporate liability, the power of regulators to keep corporate abuses in check will remain insufficient. A necessary corrective to our current climate of graft and greed, Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds will be essential to policymakers and legal minds alike. "[This] timely work offers a dispassionate analysis of problems relating to corporate crime."-Harvard Law Review

The covenant of grace effectually remembred [[electronic resource] ] : being the substance of a sermon or two / / preached by a minister of the Gospel

• Record Nr.: UNISA996385028403316
• Autore: Newcome Henry <1627-1695.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed by A.M. and R.R. for Richard Janeway ..., 1682
• Descrizione fisica: 30 p
• Soggetti: Grace (Theology); Sermons, English
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Preached by Henry Newcome. Cf. BM.; Reproduction of original in British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Multilingual individuals and multilingual societies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kurt Braunmüller, Christoph Gabriel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791907903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-54898-4; 9786613861436; 90-272-7349-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Collana: Hamburg studies on multilingualism (HSM) ; ; 13
• Altri autori (Persone): BraunmüllerKurt <1948->; GabrielChristoph
• Disciplina: 306.44/6
• Soggetti: Multilingualism - Social aspects; Languages in contact; Sociolinguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Acknowledgement; Table of contents; Foreword; References; Part I. How language is acquired and lost in multilingual settings; Case marking in child L1 and early child L2 German; 1. Introduction; 2. The German case system; 2.1 Case forms in German; 2.2 Structural case vs. lexical case; 3. The acquisition of case in German; 3.1 An overview; 3.2 The study by Eisenbeiss et al. (2006): Case marking by monolingual German children; 3.3 The criteria used by Eisenbeiss et al. in their analysis of case; 4. Spontaneous production data from successive bilingual children with L1 Turkish 5. Experimental data from monolingual and successive bilingual children; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusions; References; First exposure learners make use of top-down lexical knowledge when learning words; 1. Experience and L1 knowledge in L2 word learning; 2. Segmenting sound forms, recognizing words and making form-meaning correspondences; 3. Why study first exposure learners?; 4. Our studies; 4.1 Methodology and stimuli; 4.2 Participants; 4.3 Results; 5. Discussion and conclusions; References; Wh-questions in Dutch; 1. Introduction 2. Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition; 3. Wh-questions in Dutch, French and Italian; 3.1 Syntax of wh-questions in Dutch, French and Italian; 3.2 Monolingual acquisition of wh-questions in Dutch, French and Italian; 3.3 Multilingual acquisition of wh-questions; 4. Study; 4.1 Hypotheses; 4.2 Participants; 4.3 Experimental task; 4.4 Results; 5. Discussion and conclusions; References; The emergence of a new variety of Russian in a language contact situation; 1. Background; 1.1 The subject of the study; 1.2 Why negation?; 1.3 The functions of negation; 1.4 Negation in Russian 1.5 Negation in Swedish; 2. Negation in Julia's data; 2.1 Pre-verbal negation: Gestures; 2.2 Verbal negation; 3. Discussion; 4. Conclusion; References; The acquisition of gender agreement marking in Polish; 1. Introduction; 2. Gender classes, gender agreement and gender assignment in Polish; 3. State of the art; 3.1 The acquisition of gender in Polish; 3.2 The acquisition of gender in bilingual children; 4. Design of the present study; 4.1 Participants; 4.2 Methods; 5. Results; 5.1 Correlation of age and correctness; 5.2 Correctness of gender markings with typical, atypical and nonce nouns 5.3 Error analyses; 6. General discussion and conclusion; References; Discourse cohesion in the elicited narratives of early Russian-German sequential bilinguals; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Discourse cohesion and coherence in narratives; 1.2 Some facts about the acquisition of Russian; 2. Method; 3. Results and discussion; 4. Conclusion; Appendix; References; German segments in the speech of German-Spanish bilingual children; 1. Introduction; 2. The German voicing contrast; 2.1 Theoretical description and acquisition; 2.2 The study
• Sommario/riassunto: The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on "Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies" (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center "Multilingualism" after twelve years of successful research. It presents a panorama of contemporary research in multilingualism covering three fields of investigation: (1) the simultaneous and successive acquisition of more than one language, including language attrition in multilingual settings, (2) historical