Christopher Harding

Criminal Enterprise

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability through an examination of three types of organisation: corporate actors in the field of business activity, states and governments, and delinquent or criminal organisations. It considers both the respective roles of individuals and organisations, and the allocation of criminal responsibility to these different kinds of actor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781843922292
• ISBN-10: 1843922290
• Artikelnr.: 23190327

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: searching for the responsible criminal actor Part
I: Theory - the individual-organisation dilemmaIntroductory 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
interactionIntroductory 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 enterpriseIntroductory note 9. The
organisation as an autonomous criminal actor 10. The criminal enterprise as
facilitating framework