A self-regulating organization is a non-commercial organization that practices only some part of regulatory authority in the chosen industry. The development of a self-regulatory model requires considerable effort, time, and analysis. As a rule, this model deals with regulating operations within the chosen organization, standards that are obligatory for practices, and legal behavior that needs to be followed by all its members. The idea of sanctioning as a part of a self-regulatory model that is developed by a private organization seems to be clear and even obligatory because any organization has to represent a set of rules to consider and possible sanctions, which become the result of violations. A legal sanction may take many forms that, in their turn, have their individual purposes. The process of sanctioning as a part of the self-regulatory model needs to be applied in such forms as fines or imprisonment, sometimes death to pursue such goals as incapacitation, deterrence, or retribution.
Discussion
The peculiar feature of legal sanctions is that they are prescribed by law and are able to evaluate the violation on legal grounds (Chriss, 2007). As a part of a self-regulating model that is developed by a private organization, legal sanctions have to consider not only administrative and legal concepts but also admit the ideas and principles, chosen by the authority of this organization. If the manager of a company introduces a set of rules and makes sure each worker is awareoft these conditions, this manager gets a chance to punish anyone, who tries to break these rules. This is the peculiarity of such legal sanctioning in modern private organizations.
Like any other types of sanctions, legal sanctions in the private organization have several important goals: to incapacitate a person, to deterrent other members of the team, to take financial fines, or to retribute because of considerable violations and teach the rest a significant lesson (Clear, Cole, & Reising, 2008). The main point about all these goals is that one goal may follow another goal or become the reason for one more goal. Because of this fact, it becomes clear that the process of sanctioning is one of the most powerful that allows controlling the situation.
As legal sanctions have different goals and outcomes, it becomes evident that these sanctions may be of different forms. One of the most spread forms is financial fines. Private organizations use such a system of sanctions in order to make people follow the rules and comprehend that any violation leads to wage changes, delay, or decreasing. The application of sanctions in the form of imprisonment or death is not frequent but still possible. For example, the violations of such private companies as Enron demonstrate that white-collar crimes that influence the lives of many people lead to many years of sentencing and obligatory money back.
There are still many pros and cons of such types of sanctions. The main disadvantage of these sanctions for private organizations is that not only the court may present verdicts but also the managers of the company are responsible. This is why sometime even slight violations lead to significant sentences. The positive side of this sanctioning is the possibility to create such norms and rules, which may suit each member of the team. If necessary, it is always possible to make corrections and help a person to avoid punishment.
In general, the idea of sanctioning as a part of the self-regulating model has many positive sides. Though each violation of rules needs to be punished and analyzed, there are some situations, when a person is not actually guilty. This is why each violation of rules and sanctions have to be analyzed as isolated cases.
References
Chriss, J. J. (2007). Social Control: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Clear, T.R., Cole, G.F., & Reising, M.D. (2008). American Corrections. Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education.