Dr Alison Cronin

Alison's main research interests are in corporate crime and history and law. She has written two books on corporate criminality, Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud (Routledge 2018), and Regulating Bad Business Practice: Mapping a Framework for Legal Intervention (Edward Elgar), co-authored with the now late Prof Christopher Harding, Aberystwyth. Dr Cronin is an Academic Fellow of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators and is an active member of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network. Alison is currently supervising a PhD student researching parent and group corporate liability and is the Programme Leader for the LLM. She leads Trusts Law units at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and teaches Corporate Crime on the Level 6 Criminal Justice unit.

Publications

Journal articles

Cronin, A., 2025. The Important Role of Civil Class Actions in the Enforcement of Corporate Criminal Law. Journal of Economic Criminology.

Copp, S.F. and Cronin, A., 2018. New Models of Corporate Criminality: The Development and Relative Effectiveness of "Failure to Prevent" Offences. Company Lawyer.

Cronin, A. and Copp, S., 2018. New Models of Corporate Criminality: The Problem of Corporate Fraud: Prevention or Cure? Company Lawyer.

Copp, S. and Cronin, A., 2015. The Failure of Criminal Law to Control the Use of Off Balance Sheet Finance During the Banking Crisis. The Company Lawyer, 36 (4), 99-120.

Cronin, A., 2010. Misconduct in Public Office: dishonesty is an element if misconduct amounts to theft or fraud. Journal of Criminal Law, 74 (4), 290-294.

Books

Chapters

Cronin, A., 2024. Extending the Individual Liability of Senior Officers for the Crimes of Employees or Agents. Criminal Law Reform Now: Proposals and Critique, Volume 2. 108-116.

Cronin, A., 2023. Corporate regulation by information: democratic deficit and overcoming the dangers of the new regulatory paradigm. In: Borghi, M. and Brownsword, R., eds. Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society, Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs. Abingdon, Oxon, England and New York, US: Routledge, 67-86.

Cronin, A. and Harding, C., 2022. Regulation in theory: challenging the underlying assumptions. In: Harding, C. and Cronin, A., eds. Bad Business Practice: Criminal Law, Regulation and the Reconfiguration of the Business Model. Cheltenham, Glos, UK: Edward Elgar, 206-245.

Conferences

Cronin, A. and Copp, S.F., 2016. Failure of the 'Failure to Prevent' Model of Financial Crime: A Bespoke Solution for Corporate Fraud. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association 5-7 April 2016 Lancaster.

Cronin, A., 2016. Vulnerable Users and Digitally Induced Deviance: Questions of Liability in Cybercrime. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association 5-7 April 2016 Lancaster.

Cronin, A., 2016. Antisocial Personality Disorder, The Criminal Law and 'Victim-Offenders'. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association 5-7 April 2016 Lancaster.

Cronin, A., 2016. Media Representations of Antisocial Personality Disorder. In: 成人直播 Seminar Series on Antisocial Personality Disorder 12 January 2016 成人直播.

Cronin, A., 2016. Reforming Corporate Fraud Regulation in the UK: A Model of Manifest Liability. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association 31 March-2 April 2015 Warwick.

Outreach & engagement

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