This chapter takes stock of the Accountability Model by reference to the various desiderata that influence attempts to achieve accountability for corporate crime. We do not contend that the Accountability Model in practice will meet all these desiderata in any case. Indeed, in any particular case trade-offs will have to be made between different desiderata using a framework such as Braithwaite's and Pettit's republican theory of criminal justice, as discussed in Section 5 below. Our contention is that the Accountability Model satisfies more of the desiderata more of the time than current practice or any alternative reform proposal of which we are aware.

We proceed desideratum by desideratum, beginning with the first, which upholds the importance of individual responsibility as a means of social control.

Individual Responsibility as a Pillar of Social Control

Desideratum

The Accountability Model that we have suggested would be responsive to the problem of non-prosecution of corporate managers which is now pandemic in modern societies. Justice for individuals would be meted out by private justice systems monitored, as a safeguard against inaction or scapegoating, by the public justice system. This may be the most practicable way of imposing responsibility on those individuals who are primarily responsible.