ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on corporate crime discussed in the various chapters of this book. It talks about the shifting dynamics of state-corporate relations, the meaning of a vulnerable corporation, and what it means to be pragmatic and utopian. The book seeks to demonstrate that the corporation cannot be effectively reformed, not through corporate social responsibility (CSR), not through regulation, not through tinkering with structures and functions such as is the stuff of corporate governance. It is emphasized that harm and crime are not marginal but central to corporate activity, generated through corporate personhood, and the techniques and mindsets of 'externalities', the corporation's dehumanising structure of irresponsibility, and its necessarily a-moral, calculative rationality. The book also clarifies how the corporate drive for profits kills, maims and steals from people as a matter of course. In essence, the corporation is rapacious, violent, thirsty for profit and systematically criminal.
