Criminal Enterprise

ISBN-13: 9781843922292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 304 str.

Christopher Harding

Opis

This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability, which considers the respective roles of individuals and organizations 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 focus for discussion. Criminal Enterprise analyzes criminal responsibility through three main types of organization: corporate actors in the field of business activity, states and governments, and delinquent or criminal organizations each of which is of contemporary significance.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Christopher Harding is Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University, Wales.