The remarkable events of 2020 have disrupted and altered all sorts of plans, and this issue of FSR covers some of the many varied criminal justice and sentencing echoes of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and urgent new calls for racial justice. The intense and dynamic topics that have come to define 2020 in the United States necessarily impact, and may even consume our thinking, about modern criminal justice systems generally and federal sentencing realities in particular. Included in this FSR issue are reports and data and commentary that predate spring shutdowns and summer protests and related developments; but these materials now carry distinctive meaning and even a new urgency in light of 2020 challenges. It is impossible to fully assess in short order the impact of massive societal changes on the federal sentencing system, but we are hopeful this FSR issue can provided added perspective to a rapidly changing world that still often seems hard to fully grasp.
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October/December 2020
Editorial|
December 01 2020
Seeking Criminal Justice Clarity amid Historic Chaos
Federal Sentencing Reporter (2020) 33 (1-2): 1–2.
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Douglas A. Berman; Seeking Criminal Justice Clarity amid Historic Chaos. Federal Sentencing Reporter 1 December 2020; 33 (1-2): 1–2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fsr.2020.33.1-2.1
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