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Legislating Organizational Probation: State Capacity, Business Power, and Corporate Crime Control

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William S. Lofquist
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Abstract

This study examines the development of organizational probation. That this sanction emerged from the long process of developing organizational sentencing guidelines as a clearly specified, widely available, and often binding sanction represents an unexpected statutory outcome: an interventionist, nonmarket sanction during a time of deregulatory free market policy and ideology. This outcome is explained through a multi-theoretical framework emphasizing the structural capacity of the primary lawmaking agency, the United States Sentencing Commission, the role of middle-level state workers, and the bounded rationality of strategic decisions made by business strategists and lobbyists.

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The Production of Law in Dictatorship and Democracy
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Law & Society Review , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , 1993 , pp. 741 - 783
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Copyright © 1993 by The Law and Society Association

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An earlier version of this article was presented at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meetings, Pittsburgh, March 1992. I thank Valerie Hans, Gerry Turkel, Dave Ermann, Pan Hao, Gilbert Geis, and several anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts.

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