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Organizational Probation Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

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Volume 62 Number 2
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December 1998
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Probation as a criminal sanction for organizations was codified into federal law in 1991, when the U.S. Sentencing Commission added Chapter 8 to the sentencing guidelines. The author discusses the legal background for organizational probation and analyzes Sentencing Commission data on 271 organizations sentenced under Chapter 8 from 1993 through 1996.