# kaal:claim:2486570-006

**Claim.** Existing corporate criminal liability combined with the absence of clear Department of Justice standards for charging businesses can push organizations to adopt unproven compliance programs and generate other inefficiencies.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- holds where DOJ charging standards remain vague

**Source quote.**

> The existing corporate criminal liability in combination with a lack of clear DOJ standards for charging businesses may also lead organizations to adopt unproven compliance programs and create other inefficiencies.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, *The Effect of Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements on Corporate Governance Evidence from 1993-20* (2014), I. INTRODUCTION, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, The Effect of Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements on Corporate Governance Evidence from 1993-20 (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2486570

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**Failure mode.** unproven-compliance-adoption  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** compliance, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** compliance-programs, doj-policy, corporate-criminal-liability, cosmetic-compliance

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