An
Overview of the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines.
CHAPTER
EIGHT - SENTENCING OF ORGANIZATIONS - Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Manual and Appendices (2007). This manual contains the federal
sentencing guidelines and policy statements effective November 1,
2007.
Effective Compliance and Ethics Program: 8B2.1
Reason for 2004 Amendments to Chapter Eight (Amendment 673 from the Supplement to Appendix C, Guidelines Manual)
November
15, 2005, Public Meeting: Panel Discussion - Chapter Eight Waiver of
Attorney Client Privilege and Work Product Protections. Agenda and
panelist statements presented at the November 15, 2005, public meeting
of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
Ad
Hoc Advisory Group on Organizational Guidelines.
Food
and Drug Working Group Final Report (2/95) This update to a February
1994 report includes an overview of the food and drug guideline, §2N2.1,
and the most commonly prosecuted crimes sentenced under it. The report
provides a description and analysis of food and drug cases involving
individuals sentenced under §2N2.1 in fiscal years 1991-93,
and describes food and drug cases involving organizational defendants
sentenced under pre-guidelines law.
Corporate
Crime Symposium (Sept. 7-8, 1995) Proceedings Book (.PDF) This
volume contains the proceedings of the Commissions second symposium
in a series on crime and punishment. This symposium on corporate
crime focused on the ways in which companies, industries, and enforcement
officials have responded to the organizational sentencing guidelines incentives
and other changes in the enforcement landscape that encourage businesses
to develop strong compliance programs.
Report
from Advisory Group on Environmental Sanctions (.PDF) (12/93)
This 1993 draft of proposed sanctions for organizations convicted
of environmental offenses was prepared by an independent Advisory
Working Group on Environmental Offenses. The proposal concerns the
determination of aggravating factors in sentencing, organizational
commitment to environmental compliance, and probationary periods
for organizations.
U.S. Sentencing Commission Data on Chapter Eight - Selected excerpts from the U.S. Sentencing
Commission's Annual Reports and Sourcebooks of Federal Sentencing
Statistics (Fiscal Years 1995-2006).
Vice Chair John R. Steer, The Sentencing Commission's Implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2003)
The
Honorable Diana E. Murphy, The Federal Sentencing
Guidelines for Organizations: A Decade of Promoting Compliance and
Ethics , 87 Iowa L. Rev. 697 (2002)
2001
conference paper by Vice Chair John R. Steer on the organizational
sentencing guidelines.
John R. Steer, Changing Organizational Behavior -- The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Experiment Begins to Bear Fruit (unpublished paper presented at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on Value Inquiry, Tulsa, Oklahoma (Apr. 26, 2001)). In this paper, John R. Steer, Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, and former General Counsel to the Commission, spotlights the system of sentencing guidelines for organizational defendants and discusses how their application to convicted organizations, as well as their threatened application to other potential law breakers, provides a novel and ambitious approach to punishment. This approach combines the threat of heavy criminal fines for law violators and the likelihood of court-supervised probation (the "sticks"), with the opportunity for very substantial fine mitigation (and perhaps no probation) (the "carrots") for those convicted entities who either have instituted an "effective program to prevent and detect violations of law," or who promptly report their wrongdoing and fully cooperate with law enforcement.
Supplementary
Report on Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (August 30,
1991). This Supplementary Report on Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations
supplements and further explains the sentencing guidelines for organizational
defendants (proposed Chapter Eight of the Guidelines Manual) submitted
to Congress on May 1, 1991, as Amendment 60, by the United States
Sentencing Commission. (.PDF)
Commission Meeting Information
Probation Officers Advisory Group
Organizational Guidelines Advisory Group
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