Compliance, riparazione e diversione. Prime sperimentazioni italiane dei pre-trial agreements nel campo della responsabilità da reato delle imprese

The Author notes how, in the practice of some judicial offices, forms of corporate trial diversion have begun to develop that show clear analogies with the U.S. pre-trial agreements model, as a spontaneous evolution of the criminal compliance paradigm. Thus, while Italian doctrine debates whether such in- struments of diversion should be imported, formal or informal agreements that use non-punishment as a bargaining chip are now an undeniable reality of the corporate liability system.