Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines, 2023 ed.

Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines is a step-by-step guide that examines compliance programs under the sentencing guidelines and suggests how to prevent and detect violations of law. It covers the standards and procedures necessary to:

• Prevent and detect violations
• Train employees
• Delegate authority
• Handle internal whistle-blowing and disciplinary measures
• Establish a compliance officer position
• Ensure appropriate oversight by directors

In addition, this publication considers the expanded use of criminal law against businesses and the imposition of harsher penalties under the organizational sentencing guidelines, and addresses:

• Threshold considerations
• Liability inventory
• Codes of conduct
• Board oversight
• Auditing and monitoring systems
• Protecting whistleblowers from retaliation
• Employee discipline
• Investigating and disclosing violations

This publication also:

• Helps you advise clients about sentencing guidelines relative to base fines, culpability points, restitution, and probation
• Gives advice on helping clients set up policies and procedures that have proven capable of reducing corporate wrongdoing
• Provides guidance on how to help clients create crisis management teams
• Suggests ways to resolve compliance program deficiencies