Decisionmaking Models and the Control of Corporate CrimeThe complexity of modern corporate decisionmaking tends both to obscure and to diffuse responsibility for corporate actions.Thus, efforts to deter corporate crime' have been frustrated by difficulties in identifying the lawbreakers and in determining appropriate grounds for liability.2 Set against this background of frustration, the recent expressions of concern by Congress,the Department of Justice, 4 and 1.This Note focuses on certain federal criminal violations by corporate entities and employees-violations perpetrated to advance the interest of the corporate entity.Such violations, the immediate objective of which is organizational rather than personal gain, have been termed "acquisitive corporate crime" by Professor Dershowitz.Comment, Increasing Community Control Over Corporate Crime-A Problem in the Law of Sanctions, 71 YALE L.J. 280, 281 (1961).This definition does not exclude violations by employees who believe that they ultimately will benefit through advancement of the corporate interest.2. See, e.g., H.
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