Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Korporasi Menurut Vicarious Liability Theory

Abstract

The development of the corporation is eventually positioning itself as an entity that gets stronger and more powerful due to its advantages over entities in the form of natural humans. These advantages can be realized through a combination of a group of people and assets that they can create a social impact around them. Corporations that have been sentenced to criminal penalty in the form of monetary fine create injustice as they consist of a collection of people from various duties and their respective functions, hence only a few people have the authority to determine the direction of the corporate policy, therefore the penalty in the form of fine are distributed to all sectors of the corporation to share the burden. This shows that the corporation management is the party responsible for corporate crimes. This study uses a normative juridical method by parsing the doctrine of vicarious liability. The results of this study conclude that to identify who is most responsible for the criminal acts of the corporation through the approach of Vicarious Liability Theory, it is the actually the management, where every action of the corporations falls within the authority and the will of the management, thus it is the corporate management which becomes the party most responsible for the criminal action committed by the corporation