LSAT 158 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q26

RC Question 26 Explanation

DISCUSSION: This question is looking for an analogous situation that conforms to the author’s views on how corporate wrongdoing should be addressed. What does the author believe? He thinks that corporations themselves should be held criminally liable, and that shareholders will thus be incentivized to push for better corporate practices.

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1. CORRECT. The author thinks if there are criminal charges, then shareholders will likely put pressure on the corporation. See paragraph 4, second to last sentence.
2. The author thought criminal litigation was the solution. This answer talks about augmenting civil litigation with criminal powers. The author was against using civil litigation as the main tool.
3. The author doesn’t have any opinions on suing a corporation’s shareholders. Their argument was just that we should criminally charge the corporations directly.
4. This answer gives the opinion of the legal theorists in paragraph 3. The author disagreed with those theorists! In paragraph 4, they say we should not charge individual executives. Instead we should charge corporations as a whole.
5. In paragraph 2, the author argues that civil lawsuits are too weak a solution to deter corporations. So why would the author support….a press conference?! The mayor wags his fingers at the corporation and that solves everything? This is a weak, weak solution. The author was for criminal charges against corporations. Make them pay.