Supervisors can be convicted for enabling crimes they did not commit.

Evidence

His trial set an important precedent because a higher church official was convicted, not because he himself committed a sexual crime but because he enabled predatory priests to do so. The court ruling affirmed that clergy are not exempt from civil laws as an exercise of religious freedom and that upper-level clergy cannot absolve themselves of responsibility for crimes committed by transgressors under their supervision. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 505

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Milgrom’s work on institutions assigning responsibility, and to the difference between direct action and enabling harm — a distinction relevant to organizational ethics broadly. — connects to: Preemptive prosecution jails people for crimes never committed — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 584