the nature of the criminal law vs. the nature of the corporation  the corporation is an aggregation of once-separate capitals, assets, investors (equity and credit suppliers), managers, and workers. the law's need to pretend that the corporation is an individual, so that it can hold property and to purport to act as a stereotypical market participant, does not make it an individual in fact. but this pretence that the corporation is an individual, which makes run-of-the-mill criminal law notionally applicable to it, raises questions when criminal law is not applied to corporate actors in circumstances that would lead to the use of the law against real individuals. pretending, however, is for those who want to avoid the objective facts of life. to treat the corporation-especially the large, publicly traded corporation-as an individual is a distortion of reality.
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