NCJ Number
151244
Date Published
1991
Length
189 pages
Annotation
This Supplementary Report on Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations further explains the sentencing guidelines for organizational defendants submitted to Congress on May 1, 1991.
Abstract
This document provides additional information to assist in understanding the sentencing guidelines for organizational defendants, the guidelines' background, structure, underlying rationale, empirical basis, and significant estimated effects. Separate chapters discuss procedures followed by the Commission in developing the organizational guidelines, the Commission's resolution of major issues, the structure of past practice for fines imposed upon organizations, the magnitude of average fines imposed, and the probable effect of the guidelines on the level of fines. Tables, appendixes