The Chickenshit Club¶
Eisinger, J. (2017). The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.
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Primes¶
- No One Is Above the Rules
- In corporate, academic, and organizational contexts, the principle translates to uniform enforcement of codes of conduct, an ideal Eisinger (2017) shows is routinely betrayed in U.S. white-collar enforcement: federal prosecutors, fearing failed cases against well-resourced defendants, settled for corporate fines and non-prosecution agreements while declining to indict senior executives whose decisions caused the underlying conduct.
This sourceSimon & Schuster. Investigative account of the post-2000s decline in federal prosecutions of senior corporate executives; documents how risk-averse prosecutorial culture produced a two-tier enforcement system in which corporations paid fines while individual decision-makers escaped accountability.
- In corporate, academic, and organizational contexts, the principle translates to uniform enforcement of codes of conduct, an ideal Eisinger (2017) shows is routinely betrayed in U.S. white-collar enforcement: federal prosecutors, fearing failed cases against well-resourced defendants, settled for corporate fines and non-prosecution agreements while declining to indict senior executives whose decisions caused the underlying conduct.
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