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The entire concept of "criminal liability" as pertains to corporations has always confused me. You can't effectively sentence a corporation to anything, you can only sanction it by enforcing (typically monetary) reparations, or by dissolving the corporation in extreme circumstances.

There's a reason that, when it comes to criminal acts committed on behalf of a company, individuals are the ones that go to jail: THEY committed a crime, whether they did it to help their organization or not.

The idea of corporate person-hood a perfect example of a (very) leaky abstraction



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