This Article argues that, while the legal world treats corporate entities as people for legal purposes, this legal framing does not fit well with na\u27ve models of assessing responsibility and blame. These difficulties raise questions about the value of treating entities as people for legal purposes just at a time when the United States Supreme Court seems to be moving actively to increase this entity as a person legal metaphor. The Article first reviews the literature on the psychology of responsibility and then presents both survey and experimental data that compares reactions to individual and organizational level wrongdoing. We argue that the data suggests that people have greater trouble holding entities responsible for wrongdoi...
This Article, the first of a multipart project, addresses the nature of corporate personhood, one ar...
Under current federal law, a corporation, no matter how large or small, is criminally liable if a me...
This article demonstrates that, at least since the adoption of the Organizational Sentencing Guideli...
This Article argues that, while the legal world treats corporate entities as people for legal purp...
This article examines psycholegal aspects of corporate responsibility for wrongdoing, focusing in pa...
Corporate crime is too often addressed by fining the corporation, leaving the real people who commit...
This article defends the controversial existence of criminal liability for corporations by showing h...
The BP oil spill and financial crisis share in common more than just profound tragedy and massive cl...
This article compares the criminal punishment of corporations in the twenty-first century with two a...
Application of the doctrine of entity criminal liability, which had only a thin tortlike rationale a...
For many years, researchers assumed that the public was indifferent to corporate wrongdoing, but rec...
In a 2001 Issues Paper entitled \u27Sentencing: Corporate Offenders\u27, the New South Wales Law Ref...
Some societies used to impose liability on inanimate objects, a practice we’d now regard as silly an...
Can a group be morally responsible instead of, or in addition to, its members? An influential defens...
When a corporation commits a crime, whom may we hold criminally liable? One obvious set of defendant...
This Article, the first of a multipart project, addresses the nature of corporate personhood, one ar...
Under current federal law, a corporation, no matter how large or small, is criminally liable if a me...
This article demonstrates that, at least since the adoption of the Organizational Sentencing Guideli...
This Article argues that, while the legal world treats corporate entities as people for legal purp...
This article examines psycholegal aspects of corporate responsibility for wrongdoing, focusing in pa...
Corporate crime is too often addressed by fining the corporation, leaving the real people who commit...
This article defends the controversial existence of criminal liability for corporations by showing h...
The BP oil spill and financial crisis share in common more than just profound tragedy and massive cl...
This article compares the criminal punishment of corporations in the twenty-first century with two a...
Application of the doctrine of entity criminal liability, which had only a thin tortlike rationale a...
For many years, researchers assumed that the public was indifferent to corporate wrongdoing, but rec...
In a 2001 Issues Paper entitled \u27Sentencing: Corporate Offenders\u27, the New South Wales Law Ref...
Some societies used to impose liability on inanimate objects, a practice we’d now regard as silly an...
Can a group be morally responsible instead of, or in addition to, its members? An influential defens...
When a corporation commits a crime, whom may we hold criminally liable? One obvious set of defendant...
This Article, the first of a multipart project, addresses the nature of corporate personhood, one ar...
Under current federal law, a corporation, no matter how large or small, is criminally liable if a me...
This article demonstrates that, at least since the adoption of the Organizational Sentencing Guideli...