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Corporate Criminal Liability: An Overview of Federal Law

civil offense based upon nonfeasance to such guilt based upon affirmative misconduct. Since such an offense does not have the normal mens-rea requirement for criminal guilty, and conviction may be supported on the basis of respondeat superior, the possibility of convicting a corporation of a civil offense became firmly established. For years it ...

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