Crime Prevention Model in Chile. An Education Measure at the University to Combat Corruption

Abstract

Avoiding corruption implies work, which must be treated in a multifocal way, and involves fighting it with its persecution and education by denouncing it. On the other hand, it is necessary to punish those who commit the crime and hold accountable the legal entities that benefit from an act of corruption. In this last sense, Chile, at the request of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), dictates Law No. 20,393 that seeks to penalize legal persons for the commission of criminal offenses. However, this law's novelty is the creation of a preventive model to reduce liability. This model includes education and the obligation to report knowledge of the commission of crimes. Universities, as legal entities and especially as educational institutions for future professionals in the country, must be prepared, on the one hand, not to be used as instruments by third parties for the commission of crimes of money laundering, financing of terrorism, illicit association, bribery, reception, among others, whose common denominator is corruption, and on the other hand, this model allows students to participate, from their training, in the mechanisms aimed at preventing corruption crimes from going unpunished.