This entry explores why corporations and corporate executives produce so much harm and devastation and why states routinely fail to discipline corporations accordingly. It examines the structural conditions that make corporate crime both possible and plausible – the factors that render the corporation inherently criminogenic. Several issues are considered in this regard: defining corporate crime as a structural problematic; the legal architecture of the modern corporation; the difficulties of applying traditional legal reasoning to corporate offending; and the role of neoliberalism in shaping the nature and scope of corporate crime and its control.