By Interactive Corporate Compliance: An Alternative to Regulatory Compulsion

[Interactive Corporate Compliance] is a creative contribution to the generally moribund business regulation literature. It makes compelling reading. American Business Journal, Winter 1990 This book describes a new approach to business-government interactions while giving business and government officials a new set of practical proposals for change. Throughout U.S. history, the relationship between business and government has fluctuated constantly under the influence of changing political conditions, rather than in response to a conscious design. The proper relationship between business and government in the United States remains an unsettled issue. However, the time has come, Sigler and Murphy assert, to reconsider some old assumptions with regard to this relationship and to examine some new alternatives to the benefit of both forces. Written by a respected political scientist and an attorney experienced in corporate compliance law, this book represents a review of the history of government regulation of business, showing where it has succeeded and where it has failed. Coining the phrase interactive compliance, the authors provide a new framework for corporate compliance--one that would be nonadversarial and cooperative in nature. Their book offers a novel, yet practical, approach by which business can comply with government regulation on the one hand, while government takes a nonadversarial stance in response to business on the other. Review ?. . . Interactive Corporate Compliance provides a superb introduction to a complex area of criminal law enforcement and makes a provocative proposal for regulatory reform that is interesting and worth considering. This is particularly true because compliance programs dot the corporate landscape; after nearly forty years of sporadic use, it may be time to take a comprehensive approach to their design and purpose. Sigler and Murphy have made an admirable start in this undertaking.?-Criminal Law Forum ?This book is a creative contribution to the generally moribund business regulation literature. It makes compelling reading. . . . Sigler and Murphy are throroughly persuasive. . . this is a very good book.?-American Business Law Journal "This book is a creative contribution to the generally moribund business regulation literature. It makes compelling reading. . . . Sigler and Murphy are throroughly persuasive. . . this is a very good book."-American Business Law Journal ." . . Interactive Corporate Compliance provides a superb introduction to a complex area of criminal law enforcement and makes a provocative proposal for regulatory reform that is interesting and worth considering. This is particularly true because compliance programs dot the corporate landscape; after nearly forty years of sporadic use, it may be time to take a comprehensive approach to their design and purpose. Sigler and Murphy have made an admirable start in this undertaking."-Criminal Law Forum About the Author JAY A. SIGLER is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy at Rutgers University. JOSEPH E. MURPHY. is Senior Attorney for Bell Atlantic and a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars. He has published several articles in legal journals, including The Self-Evaluative Privilege in 7 Journal of Corporation Law 489 (1982).