Modelo de atribución de responsabilidad penal en la ley No. 20.393 que establece la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas: ¿culpabilidad de la empresa, heterorresponsabilidad o delito de infracción de deber?

摘要

The new Law Nº 20.393 introduced a completely new principle in the Chilean law system: societas delinquere potest. It is now possible to directly attribute criminal responsibility to legal persons, but only for the group of offenses covered by the Act. Because the Act requires that certain prerequisites be met for this type of responsibility to be applied, it is unclear whether the law actually changed the previously existing principle societas delinquere non potest. This article reviews three different models of attribution of criminal liability, examines which model is contained in the new law, and provides a new interpretation that accounts for the true innovation of Nº 20.393 Act.