Complying with sentencing guidelines
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The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines took effect on Nov 1, 1991, and corporate compliance programs must contain seven steps to comply with the guidelines. These steps require that compliance standards be developed, the programs to be administered by upper-level personnel and effectively communicated to all employees, that compliance be assured by frequent monitoring, positions with opportunities for illegal acts not be given to questionable individuals, the programs be enforced, and regular reviews of the programs be performed to determine needed modifications.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Bias in drug sentences
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Drug laws and policies that more aggressively target and more harshly punish on the basis of race, or factors closely related to race, hurt society at large. Currently crack cocaine users or sellers are treated as though their crimes involved 100 times as much drug as in powder cocaine cases, yet the two are chemically identical. Low-level distributors of crack are largely inner-city blacks, and though the majority of users are white, those prosecuted and sentenced are almost always black.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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Guidelines don't fit environmental cases
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The US Sentencing Commission's Guidelines for Organizations leave the question of fines for environmental crimes unanswered. The difficulty of estimating pecuniary loss or gain may have entered into the Commission's decision to exclude financial penalties for environmental crimes from the sentencing guidelines. It is hoped that the Commission will alleviate the present confusion resulting from its suggesting that fines for environmental fines be 'based on general statutory provisions.'
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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