The Effect of Compliance Programs on Corporate Criminal Liability under US Federal Law - From Charging, to Trial to Sentencing
That corporations can be held criminally liable for the acts of their agents has by now long been established in US federal law, and so has the fact that corporate compliance programs may allow corporations to limit or completely avoid this liability. The aim of this essay is to understand under what circumstances such a reduction in liability is possible during the pre-trial, trial and sentencing
