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.

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

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