Add to ORKGThe Federal Sentencing Guidelines were created with two broad goals in mind. One, of course, was to reduce unjustified sentencing disparity, and that was accomplished in two ways. The first was to reduce the scope of front-end judicial discretion through the creation of guidelines. The second, which I think Tom Hutchison touched on,1 was to eliminate altogether the discretion of penological experts in the parole commission at the back end of the punishment process
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 provided that the trial court shall impose a sentence of the kind...
The federal sentencing guidelines have received sustained criticism from scholars, judges, and pract...
This article explores the topic of sentencing guidelines. Specifically, the author weighs the intend...
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines were created with two broad goals in mind. One, of course, was to ...
In the remarks that follow, I do four things. First, for those unfamiliar with the Federal Sentencin...
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 sought to bring consistency, coherence, and accountability to a fe...
In a prescient New York Times op-ed piece entitled Let Guidelines be Guidelines, written in respon...
Sentencing commissions, administrative agencies charged to develop and promulgate standards for sent...
Ensuring “transparency in sentencing” and seeking to eliminate “unwarranted disparity in sentencing”...
In 1984 the Sentencing Reform Act was passed, ending fully discretionary sentencing by judges and al...
[Excerpt] “Until the passage of the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines in 1984, federal judges had r...
For the last twenty years, much of the discussion about the criminal justice system has focused on c...
In 1987, the Nation’s first attempt to standardize federal sentencing came in the form of the United...
The Columbia Law Review\u27s Symposium on sentencing, which took place less than two weeks after the...
The guidelines have shifted the locus of discretion from the judge to the prosecutor. This transfer ...
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 provided that the trial court shall impose a sentence of the kind...
The federal sentencing guidelines have received sustained criticism from scholars, judges, and pract...
This article explores the topic of sentencing guidelines. Specifically, the author weighs the intend...
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines were created with two broad goals in mind. One, of course, was to ...
In the remarks that follow, I do four things. First, for those unfamiliar with the Federal Sentencin...
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 sought to bring consistency, coherence, and accountability to a fe...
In a prescient New York Times op-ed piece entitled Let Guidelines be Guidelines, written in respon...
Sentencing commissions, administrative agencies charged to develop and promulgate standards for sent...
Ensuring “transparency in sentencing” and seeking to eliminate “unwarranted disparity in sentencing”...
In 1984 the Sentencing Reform Act was passed, ending fully discretionary sentencing by judges and al...
[Excerpt] “Until the passage of the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines in 1984, federal judges had r...
For the last twenty years, much of the discussion about the criminal justice system has focused on c...
In 1987, the Nation’s first attempt to standardize federal sentencing came in the form of the United...
The Columbia Law Review\u27s Symposium on sentencing, which took place less than two weeks after the...
The guidelines have shifted the locus of discretion from the judge to the prosecutor. This transfer ...
The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 provided that the trial court shall impose a sentence of the kind...
The federal sentencing guidelines have received sustained criticism from scholars, judges, and pract...
This article explores the topic of sentencing guidelines. Specifically, the author weighs the intend...