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A Responsive Approach to Organizational Misconduct: Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and the Reduction of Reoffense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Stephanie Bertels ,
Michael Cody  and
Simon Pek
Stephanie Bertels
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University
Michael Cody
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
Simon Pek
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University
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Abstract:

In this article, we examine how regulators, prosecutors, and courts might support and encourage the efforts of organizations to not only reintegrate after misconduct but also to improve their conduct in a way that reduces their likelihood of re-offense (rehabilitation). We explore a novel experiment in creative sentencing in Alberta Canada that aimed to try to change the behaviour of an industry by publicly airing the root causes of a failure of one the industry’s leaders. Drawing on this case and prior work, we articulate a model for a responsive and restorative approach to organizational misconduct that balances the punitive role of regulators and courts with new roles in supporting and overseeing rehabilitation.

Keywords

misconductrehabilitationreintegrationrestorative justiceregulatorsresponsive regulation
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 343 - 370
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2014

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