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Abstract This book seeks to answer the question of how best to use the criminal law when engaging with corporate wrongdoing. Corporate offending is brought about by persons (or AI systems) associated with the company. This fact is best reflected through creating corporate offences specifically focused on the company’s ‘failure to prevent’ offending committed by a person (or AI system) associated with the company. In that regard, the bridge crossing the ‘responsibility gap’ between the abstract company and the associated wrongdoer is to be found in the failure by the director or directors collectively—the company’s constitutionally required, supreme executive agents—to prevent the offending. The failure-to-prevent model is set in the context of a ‘liberal-welfarist’ socio-political approach to corporate liability. Liberal-welfarism requires companies to protect and promote welfarist values, such as integrity in transacting; but it does so in the belief that companies can and should be encouraged to become self-motivated to engage in this process. The book advocates a defence of ‘all reasonable steps taken and all due diligence exercised’ to a failure-to-prevent offence, as a part of this liberal-welfarist approach. That approach is also behind the argument that, in serious cases, reliance on huge fines as the principal punishment is morally questionable. Punishment should instead be focused both on changing corporate attitudes to compliance and on coerced penitential atonement, in the form of a corporate commitment to develop victim- or community-focused common goods (such as local environmental improvements) that rehabilitate the company as a responsible corporate citizen.