I. INTRODUCTION The popular law...

I. INTRODUCTION

The popular law of corporate criminal liability unraveled as a series of reactions to puzzles that courts historically encountered in assigning criminal blame to corporations. (1) The greatest in quantity fundamental hurdle for courts to crush was the idea of holding fictional entities culpable in a legal rule based on individual moral accountability. Courts resolv this issue slowly beginning with the civil law-based doctrine of respondeat superior (2) and gradually injecting aspects of the criminal law, of that kind as hearings and sentencing, into the abstract nature of the corporation. (3)

Eventually, courts settl immediately after a broad base of principles that