Alison Cronin - Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud

Through a rational reconstruction of orthodox legal principles, and reference to cutting-edge neuroscience, 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 this work is the development of a theory of corporate criminality that accords with modern theory of group agency, itself informed by advancements in contemporary philosophy and social science. The innovation it proposes is the theoretical and practical means by which criminal fault can be attributed directly to the corporate actor, where liability cannot or should not be reduced to its individual members.

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.

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Names: Cronin, Alison, author.

Title: Corporate criminality and liability for fraud / Alison Cronin.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York : Routledge, 2018. |

Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017048538| ISBN 9781138744639 (hbk) |

ISBN 9781351716857

(web pdf) | ISBN 9781351716840 (epub) | ISBN 9781351716833

(kindle)

Subjects: LCSH: Corporations--Corrupt practices. | Corporation law-

Criminal provisions. | Criminal liability of juristic persons.

Classification: LCC K5216 .C76 2018 | DDC 345/.0263--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048538

ISBN: 978-1-138-74463-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-17960-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Galliard

by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, UK

For Mr Cronin

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