Criminal responsibility for legal persons in settlement period

Accepting criminal responsibility for legal persons is a matter of consideration in most legal systems and is not incorporated in enactments. There is some barriers concerning to this matter which relate to traditional goals of criminology and fundamental principles of criminal law. Legal persons have exclusionary and limited legal capacity and they continue their activities in order to support the rights of the creditors. There is a fundamental question here in relation to the possibility of imposing punishment to them in settlement period. There is no answer in behalf of legislator, so considering restrict interpretation giving answer to this question is a serious challenge. All these matters will be examined in this article.