Criminal Liability of Legal Persons with Special Reference to Decree 130-2017 containing the new Honduras Criminal Code

Abstract

In this article, an analysis is made of what corresponds to the criminal responsibility of legal persons in the new Criminal Code, and the model of criminal responsibility that it follows is proposed. Likewise, it raises who are the legal persons that respond criminally, as well as the legal persons that do not respond. An analysis is made of the sanctions applicable to companies, which in a certain way clash with administrative sanctions because the same criminal sanctions to the company can also be applied from the perspective of the sanctioning Administrative Law, although the latter is somewhat rejected, the doctrine still does not agree, if they are penalties, if they are administrative sanctions.