304 Pages
by
Willan
304 Pages
by
Willan
304 Pages
by
Willan
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This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability, considering the respective roles of individuals and organisations and the allocation of criminal responsibility to these different kinds of actor. The issue of criminal responsibility, which is informed by both the sociological analysis of conduct and by ethical considerations of responsibility, provides an important and revealing... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction: searching for the responsible criminal actor Part I: Theory - the individual-organisation dilemma Introductory note 2. The organisation in contemporary society 3. Agency: the philosophy of the collective 4. Legal routes to responsibility 5. Models of responsibility Part II: Contexts - paradigmatic sites for individual and organisational interaction Introductory note 6. Human or corporate? Allocating responsibility for business conspiracy 7. Delinquency within structures of governance 8. The legal control of criminal organisations Part III: Criminal organisation and criminal enterprise Introductory note 9. The organisation as an autonomous criminal actor 10. The criminal enterprise as facilitating framework
Biography
Christopher Harding is Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University, Wales.
