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In the United States, those attitudes began to soften during the course of the nineteenth century when corporations in American society first began to blossom and their potential to do harm first became significant. By the turn of the twentieth century, as the Industrial Revolution fundamentally altered the role of large corporations in American life, the need for some mechanism of regulating and punishing corporate malfeasance became all the more clear. Most histories of American corporate criminal liability start there—the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the regulatory state, and the Su