Deterring Environmental Crime through Flexible Sentencing: A Proposal for the New Organizational Environmental Sentencing Guidelines

The Failure Of The Organizational Sentencing Guidelines

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 1. GOALS OF CORPORATE LIABILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 A. Corporate Deterrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 B. Using Liability to Induce Corp...

Sentencing Commissions and Their Guidelines

Sentencing commissions, administrative agencies charged to develop and promulgate standards for sentencing, were first proposed early in the 1970s and first established in 1978. Of four recent major sentencing reform approaches-the others being parole guidelines, voluntary sentencing guidelines, and statutory determinate sentences-only sentencing commission systems continue to be created. Despi...

Intermediate Sanctions in Sentencing Guidelines

Every American state has created new intermediate sanctions in recent years and nearly half have, have had, or are considering having sentencing guidelines. Guidelines can reduce sentencing disparities, including race, gender, and geographical disparities; effect changes in statewide sentencing patterns; and coordinate sentencing policies and corrections resources. Well-managed intermediate san...

New Mexico Sentencing Commission

Variably called bias-based policing, racial profiling, or Driving While Black or Brown, the phenomenon of apparent disparate treatment of minorities by police has received considerable attention from the media, academics, politicians, and government organizations in recent years. A common contention is that the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. combined with practices employed by loc...

Women Offenders and the Sentencing Guidelines