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6 Crim. L.F. vii (1995)

handle is hein.journals/crimlfm6 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. 6 No. 1 (1995) VII Introduction Roger J. Dennis* This issue of Criminal Law Forum focuses on a distinctive and important topic in criminal law-corporate criminal liability. In the advanced Western industrial countries and increasingly in the emerging economies, governments have turned to criminal law in an attempt to control business-community deviance from legal norms. Criminal law is used to respond to a broad range of social issues, including regulation of marketplace competition and securities markets, as well as regulation of the environment and workplace safety. Whether the amount of corporate deviance is escalating is subject to considerable debate. However, there is enough evidence of spectacular noncompliance with legal norms-such as the insider trading scandals and savings and loan fiasco in the United States and the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster and the collapse of Barings Bank in Europe-to demonstrate that corporate deviance is a significant and chronic phenomenon. A vexing issue in the enforcement of criminal sanctions in the corporate context is developing suitable legal models for ascribing criminal responsibility for individual or collective behavior to the corporation. In the Anglo-American legal environment, the problem has been debated using three models, the broad vicarious liability model, the control group (identification) model, and more recently the aggregate Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, New Jersey, United States; B.S., Northwestern University 1971; J.D., Northwestern University 1974. Vol. 6 No. 1 (1995) vii

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