Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Globalization of Law and Local Wisdom (ICGLOW 2019)

Application of the Vicarious Liability Principles in Environmental Crime

Authors
K. Puji Prayitno, D. Hapsari Retnaningrum
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K. Puji Prayitno
Available Online October 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icglow-19.2019.66How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Vicarious Liability, Environmental Crime, Premum remidium
Abstract

Environmental crime is one of the criminal acts that may lead to significant negative impact and/or damage to human sustainability. Therefore, in criminal law, criminal acts related to the environment needs to be specifically regulated. The regulation can exist outside or comes in different form from the Criminal Code. The application of the vicarious liability principle include but not limited to the subject of criminal acts and criminal liability. The study aim to analyze the primary reason for the application of the vicarious liability, whether the application of the vicarious liability is appropriate and the formulation of sanctions for perpetrators in environmental crime . The method used is normative juridical with descriptive specifications and qualitative analysis. The primary reason to apply the doctrine of vicarius liability so that not only individual person that can be a subject to criminal sanctions but also to include corporations, thus this doctrine appropriate to be applied in environmental crime. The formulation of the regulation that offer application of sanctions in law No. 32 of 2009 on protection and management of the environment is to apply the doctrines of strick liabilty with vicariuos liabilty simultaneously and doctrine of premum remidium so as to provide a deterrent effect for the perpetrators

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Globalization of Law and Local Wisdom (ICGLOW 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-819-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icglow-19.2019.66How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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