Corporate wrongdoing goes lightly punished when executives are shielded from consequences.

Evidence

The sins of willful omission by chief executives resulted in neither personal fines nor long jail sentences. The electrical corporations paid medium-size fines, as did a number of their managerial officials. Those more deeply involved in the conspiracy received light prison sentences as well, although virtually all of the sentences were suspended. In corporate cultures where unlawful behavior is profitable and top executives are shielded from the consequences of their wrongdoing, the moral disengagement drama is repeated. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1404

Categorization

• XREF: Supports Bandura’s displacement-of-responsibility mechanism which parallels the vault’s authoritarianism claims about why punitive attitudes target the powerless rather than the powerful. — connects to: Public shame alone rarely changes corporate behavior without consequences.; Corporate fines with no admitted wrongdoing shield executives from consequences; Fining corporations without prosecuting executives hardened into a gentleman’s agreement (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1404