Abstract
The chapter covers the issue of suspended sentence with regard to penalisation of legal entities in the light of the purpose of the institute. The introduction deals with the suspended sentence in general together with its historical development subject to, inter alia, the type of the suspended sentence.
The selected foreign examples include analysis of the suspended sentence within the legal order of the United States, Austria and Slovenia. Suspended sentence within the context of the European Union and the Council of Europe is also briefly reflected.
Lastly, the author offers his opinion on the issue raised in the title of the chapter.