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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2023) 35 (4-5): 226–233.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-backed reforms contributed to mass incarceration, and it considers how today’s sentencing guidelines might have altered Judge Frankel’s determination of sentence in the 1976 “heater” case of Rabbi Bernard Bergman. © 2023 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2023 sentencing prosecutors...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2023) 35 (3): 205–211.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Mark H. Bergstrom; Ryan S. Meyers Pennsylvania has regularly approved incremental changes to sentencing guidelines and correctional statutes, but these often are inadequate when fundamental change is required. In 2014, the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing began a comprehensive review...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2022) 35 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... This latest and longest episode of Commission paralysis strikes us as particularly disturbing because it may reflect a widespread lack of faith in—or at least a notable dearth of enthusiasm for—the work of the Commission and the guidelines enterprise more generally. Like baseball fans on opening day, we...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2022) 35 (1): 6–8.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Judge Nancy Gertner The new Sentencing Commission should do more than tinker with the Guidelines - reducing this or that level, adding this or that policy statements. It should start from scratch. The Guidelines that anchor sentencing - even if they do not determine outcomes - were enacted nearly...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2021) 33 (4): 217–220.
Published: 01 April 2021
... sentencing data guidelines commission punishment crime criminal justice COVID-19 EDITORS OBSERVATIONS 217 Deciphering Data STEVEN L. CHANENSON FSR Co-Managing Editor; Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law DOUGLAS A. BERMAN FSR Co-Managing Editor; Newton D. Baker...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2020) 33 (1-2): 11–21.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for imprisonment indicates that it continues to consider itself the guardian of incarceration-driven guidelines. The studies reenforce the status quo and the Commission’s role in it. They threaten to propel us into data-driven selective incapacitation and continuously long prison terms for those with prior...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2020) 32 (3): 125–127.
Published: 01 February 2020
... the lessons of our criminal justice history, we must go beyond guidelines. Just over 25 years ago, Congress spoke forcefully in the 1994 Crime Bill. It was addressing the concerns of that era with tactics that garnered wide support at the time but are not always viewed favorably today. By stopping to explore...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2020) 32 (3): 128–137.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Mark H. Allenbaugh Antonin Scalia famously observed in his dissent in United States v. Booker that an advisory sentencing guidelines regime would result in a “discordant symphony” where similarly situated offenders would receive ad hoc sentences. As this article demonstrates through a statistical...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2020) 32 (3): 138–144.
Published: 01 February 2020
... Institute of Justice 2020 database guidelines gambling addiction college admissions PACER transcript A Good Sentencing Precedent is Hard to Find In federal sentencing proceedings, federal law requires that district courts consider the sentences other courts have imposed in factually similar...