Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud

ISBN-13: 9780367592011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

Alison Cronin

Opis

Through a rational reconstruction of orthodox legal principles, and reference to cutting-edge neuro-science, this book reveals some startling truths about the criminal law, its history and the fundamental doctrines that underpin the attribution of criminal fault. While this has important implications for the criminal law generally, the focus of

Spis treści

1. Criminal fraud and the problem of the corporate actor;  2. Corporate fraud: the case for a general model of criminal fault;  3. Orthodoxy and the twin canons of criminal fault;  4. Mens rea, metaphysics and the manifest assessment of fault;  5. Modern philosophy: mirror neurons and the manifest approach;  6. Realism: back to the future?;   7. The unmasking of the identification principle;   8. Concluding thoughts - corporate fraud and the way forward

 

O autorze

Dr Alison Cronin holds a PhD specialising in corporate fraud and is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Law, Bournemouth University, UK. Called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 2004, her research interests are in the field of corporate and economic crime.