...Stephen R. Sady Retroactive amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, such as Amendment 821 to the calculation of criminal history, confer discretion on judges to reduce sentences when the Sentencing Commission determines that a guideline is overly harsh. The statute on retroactive...

... 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...

...: (i) a permanent independent commission on sentencing; (ii) an articulation of policies or guidelines for judges to follow, and (iii) meaningful appellate review. The issues of sentencing guidance, sentencing guidelines, and sentencing commissions or councils [i] have been extensively debated...

... show the way to creation of American sentencing systems that take justice and human dignity seriously. © 2023 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2023 Marvin Frankel sentencing commission sentencing guidelines prosecutorial abuses Doing Injustice: Exchanging One Arbitrary...

... Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2023 Sentencing guidelines Simplification Sentencing Commission Complexity Marvin, through the Looking-Glass JONATHAN J. WROBLEWSKI Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School Director, Of ce of Policy and Legislation, Criminal Division, U.S...

... prosecutors were operating under aging, interim charging, pleas, and sentencing guidelines, issued barely a week after President Biden took office, that revived former Attorney General Holder’s 2010 policies. But, in just a matter of months, the federal system has gone from a holding pattern to warp speed...

...Kelly Lyn Mitchell This essay on the obligations of sentencing commissions to constantly reassess their policies is adapted from the speech given by Kelly Lyn Mitchell, Chair of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission, upon receiving the Richard P. Kern Memorial Award from the National...

.... This can show whether Sentencing Guidelines section 3E1.1operates to apply coercive pressure when sentencing exposure increases sharply the longer the defendant takes to plead guilty. Punishing defendants more seriously the longer their cases proceed can chill investigation and force confessions even when...

...Jon O. Newman The Sentencing Guidelines are needlessly complicated, and can be easily simplified if the Commission’s long-promised “evolution” will finally begin. © 2022 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2022 United States Sentencing Commission Sentencing Guidelines...

... impacts on recommended sentences and potential disparity. We conclude with a discussion of research on juvenile cognitive development and its implications as related to our findings. © 2022 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2022 sentencing guidelines prior record juveniles...

... instrument; comprehensive review of the use of criminal history in the Pennsylvania Sentencing Guidelines; establishment of state parole guidelines; and design of a modular population projection simulation model. © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2021 Sentencing data data...

... with their executive and legislative colleagues. The essay also chronicles Judge Weinstein’s approach to sentencing and commitment to procedural justice. Sentencing Sentencing Guidelines Judge Justice Procedural Justice Prison © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2021 Jack B...

... their worst act—could be salvaged, and deserved happiness. © 2021 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. 2021 Judge Weinstein sentencing sentencing guidelines mandatory minimums terrorism child pornography deterrence Sentencing with Love, Not Hate I. Just get out of the way and let...

... court community sentencing guidelines racial disparity Taking Steps to Address Racial Disparities in Sentencing On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His death set off a series of protests in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and other cities across the nation...

... 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...

...Richard S. Frase This article updates the author’s previous survey of guidelines systems, published in this journal in 1999, and reviews what these reforms have and have not accomplished. Sentencing guidelines developed by an independent sentencing commission are currently being used in 17 states...

... that help to explain why some states have been able to maintain consistently low prison rates, or to lower their formerly high rates. One such practice is the use of sentencing guidelines combined with parole abolition, developed and monitored by an adequately funded independent sentencing commission...

...Juliet Kamuzze The Ugandan Taskforce on developing sentencing guidelines recently drafted sentencing guidelines for Uganda, which were issued as practice directions by the Chief Justice to assist judges and magistrates in the sentencing decision making process. Like in many other jurisdictions...

... 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...

... to offenses involving the manufacture, importation, exportation, or trafficking of controlled substances, is employed more often than any other offense guideline in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual.1 Within section 2D1.1, the base offense level is determined through the Drug Quantity Table2 in virtually...