Most potential recruits and serving personnel are far more drawn to immediate cash benefits than deferred non-cash benefits, studies show.
I have found that far more often than not, when corporations and banks are prosecuted and receive non-prosecution and deferred prosecution agreements, no individuals are prosecuted.
The plan clamps down on the non-prosecution and deferred prosecution agreements that have become all-too-common even for the most serious corporate misdeeds.
It prompted the DOJ to announce a new policy in 2003 that allowed non-prosecution or deferred prosecution settlements with companies as a way to enforce important laws without causing a corporate collapse.
It is important to point out that the study was originally designed to demonstrate non-inferiority of deferred treatment.
Another 303 companies have reached "deferred" and "non-prosecution" agreements, an option that has recently, and controversially, become available to large companies.
Uhlmann will argue that deferred and non-prosecution agreements should not be used in major corporate crime cases.
According to a report in May by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative-leaning think tank, there have been 207 deferred or non-prosecution agreements since 2004.
In non-disclosing couples the opposite pattern was seen, i.e. the man preferred non-disclosure and the woman deferred to her husband (Shehab et al., 2008).
Under the deal, Swiss banks could disclose their activity to U.S. investigators and enter a non-prosecution agreement or a deferred prosecution agreement.
"The deal with Massey continues a disturbing trend whereby corporations can avoid criminal prosecution by entering deferred prosecution or non-prosecution agreements," Uhlmann wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Times in December 2011.
