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47 J. Corp. L. Digit. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/jcldgtl47 and id is 1 raw text is: Solving Corporate Crime Steven P. Solow & Leslie Couvillion' I. IN TR O D U CTIO N ............................................................................................................ 1 II. EVERYONE AGREES, THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH WHITE COLLAR CRIMINAL E N FO R CEM EN T ........................................................................................................ 3 III. TO ADDRESS CORPORATE CRIME, ALLOW PROSECUTORS TO BECOME PROBLEM SOLVERS .....................................................................................................................5 A. Moving Toward Prosecutors as Problem-Solvers .................................................5 B. Provide Prosecutors (and others) with Additional Analyses of the Effectiveness of Criminal (and Other) Enforcement Efforts ............................8 C. Root Causes of Corporate Crim e ...................................................................... 9 1. What is M eant by Root Cause? ................................................................ 9 2. Bad Apples or Something Larger?.............................................................10 3. Reducing Governmental Invitations to Fraud ...........................................12 IV. A PROPOSAL TO HELP SOLVE CORPORATE CRIME .......................................................14 A. The Non-Compliance Puzzle ...............................................................................14 B. Why OIGs? ..........................................................................................................15 V. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................. 17 I. INTRODUCTION Last fall's symposium, held at Georgetown Law Center from October 22-23, 2021, asked the participants to imagine a world without corporate criminal liability. The symposium brought together a mix of academics and practitioners, including a practitioners panel. The thread that ran through the panels was whether corporate criminal liability is so flawed that it should be abolished, or whether it achieves-or promises to achieve-enough good that it is worthy of keeping, albeit with reforms. This question goes to the heart of what role corporate criminal law should play in supporting an equitable, safe, and just society. Each symposium attendee brought a unique perspective to the myriad issues and 1 The authors express their appreciation to Zach Tumin and Ron Sarachan for their efforts over many years to help shape the notion of an epidemiological approach to assessing corporate criminal behavior; Ron Goldstock for modeling and articulating the necessary behaviors of a Prosecutor as Problem Solver; Professors Mihailis Diamantis, Pablo Quinones, and Jennifer Arlen for providing various opportunities to attempt to articulate these ideas; finally, to Professor William Laufer, for persistently pursuing empirical evaluations of corporate misconduct, and even more persistently pushing on the validity of received assumptions about addressing these issues.

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