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Barnard, Jayne W (1998). Reintegrative Shaming in Corporate Sentencing Southern California Law Review. 79:959-1007.

The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines were intended to be an organic document to be altered as experience suggests additional ways in which sentencing procedures could be more effective in minimizing criminal activities.201 This Article proposes an amendment to the Guidelines, designed (1) to increase the likelihood of corporate self-reporting of crimes and cooperation with investigators in determining the scope and extent of a corporation’s crime, and (2) to increase the likelihood that corporations— especially public ones—will be more attentive to legal compliance values, and more assiduous in establishing internal compliance programs. Both of these objectives are salutary and achievable. (excerpt)

Link: rcf.usc.edu/~usclrev/pdf/072401.pdf

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