Criminal Enterprise

Content: Cover
 Criminal Enterprise Individuals, organisations and criminal responsibility
 Copyright
 Contents
 Preface
 1. Introduction: searching for the responsible criminal actor
 Individuals, organisations and criminal responsibility
 Mapping out the discussion
 Main lines of theory
 Back to some fact: illustrative narratives of the subject
 The enigma of the responsible actor
 Part I. Theory: the individual-organisation dilemma Introductory note
 Introductory note
 2. The organisation in contemporary society
 A self-evident significance? The sociology of organisations: no clear answer to the ontological questionDefinition: organisations and social groups
 Constructing a broad typology
 The value of typology: what's in a name?
 3. Agency: the philosophy of the collective
 Problems in constructing theory
 Actors and identities: reality and social ascription
 Does an organisation possess agency? 'Individualism' versus 'holism'
 Human interaction as a key to organisational agency
 The criteria of organisational agency (and of organisations)
 From agency to responsibility
 4. Legal routes to responsibility. Moving into a legal landscapeIndividuals, collectivities and corporate actors
 The nature of individual responsibility
 Collective responsibility: all for one and one for all
 Corporate responsibility: the autonomous organisation
 Incorporation as a legal process
 5. Models of responsibility
 Hart revisited
 The agent in a social role: role-responsibility
 The psychology of agency: capacity-responsibility
 Responsibility in the instant case: causal-responsibility
 The determination of responsibility and application of sanctions: liability-responsibility
 Criminal responsibility and liability. Part II. Contexts: paradigmatic sites for individual and organisational interaction Introductory noteIntroductory note
 6. Human or corporate? Allocating responsibility for business conspiracy
 Elements of conspiracy
 Business conspiracy: participation and identity
 Double counting: offences, persons and jeopardy?
 The attribution of responsibility to corporate business actors
 The strategic dimension: the enforcement perspective
 The search for legal principle
 7. Delinquency within structures of governance
 The delinquent State: in the back seat? Governmental delinquency as criminal conductState or individual responsibility?
 The nature of State responsibility for delinquency in governance: the genie out of the bottle?
 The relationship between State and individual responsibility: distinguishing organisational and implementing responsibility
 State and government: disaggregating governmental actors
 Conclusion: delinquent roles and identities
 8. The legal control of criminal organisations
 Penetrating and theorising about an obscure subject
 Organised criminality
 Criminal organisation. The criminal organisation as a distinct organisational agent.