... sentences homicide incapacitation deterrence punishment sentencing guidelines consensus Reconsidering Long Sentences: The Search for Common Ground ADAM GELB President and CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice Here s an idea: amid a historic spike in homicide, convene a task force to reconsider...

... the book’s golden anniversary, explores the role that Frankel and his book had in shaping modern sentencing discourse and what lessons they offer for the future. © 2023 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2023 Criminal Sentences Sentencing Sentencing Commission Punishment Criminal Law...

...Marta Nelson Our addictions to carceral sentences take away people’s freedom, reduce safety through weakening communities, and disproportionately target Black people because our nation’s conceptions of who needs to be punished, deterred, or locked away are so tied to anti-Blackness...

... Commissions Punishment Prosecutors Plea Bargains Mandatory Minimums Discretion Racial Disparity Racial Justice EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Life in the Fast Lane: Dynamic Sentencing Developments across the Nation STEVEN L. CHANENSON Co-Managing Editor, FSR Professor of Law, Villanova University Charles...

... discretion and under a broad statutory scheme of criminal punishment for victim restitution and government revenue generation. State jurisprudence of taxes and user charges offers clarity to how LFOs can be more equitably and efficiently organized and imposed by courts across Washington. This paper expands...

... acknowledge the implications of accepting restitution as punishment. If courts would concede restitution’s punitive purpose and effect, the Constitution could limit the scope of restitution awards — through the Sixth Amendment’s jury trial right and the Eighth Amendment’s excessive fines clause. Under...

..., and cannabis were extremely dangerous, led to other crime, and prevalently were used and sold by immigrants and other despised groups. Public pressure for more severe punishment seemed to peak twice, in the 1920s and 1950s, in response to exaggerated threats such as “dope peddlers” targeting children...

... (and mandatory) sen- have been later amended to provide a shorter term of tences described above on each such count. Unfortunately, imprisonment.4 the government, armed by Congress with a discretionary power to compel the ultra-harsh punishments by stacking The three italicized categories of cases are revealing...

... 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...

... illuminate the path forward. © 2020 Vera Institute of Justice 2020 sentencing crime punishment guidelines sentencing guidelines supreme court Congress Justice Breyer E D I T O R S O B S E R V A T I O N S Looking Backward and Moving Forward STEVEN L. CHANENSON FSR Co-Managing Editor...

... the continued constitutional fallout from Blakely , and the current policy debates that have come to define modern sentencing systems. © 2014 Vera Institute of Justice 2014 Sentencing punishment crime Blakely Supreme Court mass incarceration sentencing guidelines Congress Sentencing Commission...

... serious crimes, a strong, rock-bottom sentence must be imposed. © 2014 Vera Institute of Justice 2014 mandatory minimum sentences Smarter Sentencing Act crime punishment clemency. The Case Against the Smarter Sentencing Act [Professor Otis s article is adapted from his presentation...