Appellate Review of Sentences and the Development of Sentencing Policy
Author : David Arthur Thomas
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Criminal law
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Author : David Arthur Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Criminal law
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Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
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Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
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ISBN : 9781688991422
This paper provides an overview of the federal sentencing system. For historicalcontext, it first briefly discusses the evolution of federal sentencing during the past fourdecades, including the landmark passage of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA),1 inwhich Congress established a new federal sentencing system based primarily on sentencingguidelines, as well as key Supreme Court decisions concerning the guidelines. It thendescribes the nature of federal sentences today and the process by which such sentencesare imposed. The final parts of this paper address appellate review of sentences; therevocation of offenders' terms of probation and supervised release; the process whereby theUnited States Sentencing Commission (the Commission) amends the guidelines; and theCommission's collection and analysis of sentencing data.
Author : Andrew Von Hirsch
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781555530099
Author : Arie Freiberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317821831
Public outcries and political platforms based on misinformation and misconceptions about the criminal justice system and current sentencing practice occur all too often in democratic societies. Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy attempts to address this problem by bringing together important contributions from a number of distinguished experts in the field. Penal Populism presents theoretical perspectives on the role of the public in the development of sentencing policy. It places particular emphasis on the emerging role of sentencing commissions, advisory councils or panels in a number of English speaking countries: Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Scotland and South Africa. The book explains, expands and develops the existing literature that looks at public attitudes to justice and the role that the 'public' can play in influencing policy. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, Penal Populism asks the critical questions: should 'public opinion', or preferably, 'public judgment' be relevant to court decision-making, to institutional decision-making and to the political process? And if so, how?
Author : Sandra Shane-DuBow
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Prison sentences
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1996-12
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ISBN : 0788137344
Presents the findings of the first national assessment of sentencing reforms. This report offers lessons learned in the diverse efforts to structure sentencing over the past two decades. These lessons are offered in the context of a historical perspective of sentencing practices used in the U. S., with a discussions of the issues that led to the structured sentencing movement. They are based on a national survey of existing sentencing practices in the 50 States & the District of Columbia. Sources for further information. Bibliography. Charts & tables.
Author : Kate Stith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226774862
For two centuries, federal judges exercised wide discretion in criminal sentencing. In 1987 a complex bureaucratic apparatus termed Sentencing "Guidelines" was imposed on federal courts. FEAR OF JUDGING is the first full-scale history, analysis, and critique of the new sentencing regime, arguing that it sacrifices comprehensibility and common sense.
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Government publications
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Author : Richard S. Frase
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190254009
All modern sentencing systems, in the US and beyond, consider the offender's prior record to be an important determinant of the form and severity of punishment for subsequent offences. Repeat offenders receive harsher punishments than first offenders, and offenders with longer criminal records are punished more severely than those with shorter records. Yet the vast literature on sentencing policy, law, and practice has generally overlooked the issue of prior convictions, even though this is the most important sentencing factor after the seriousness of the crime. In Paying for the Past, Richard S. Frase and Julian V. Roberts provide a critical and systematic examination of current prior record enhancements under sentencing guidelines across the US. Drawing on empirical data and analyses of guidelines from a number of jurisdictions, they illustrate different approaches to prior record enhancements and the differing outcomes of those approaches. Roberts and Frase demonstrate that most prior record enhancements generate a range of adverse outcomes at sentencing. Further, the pervasive justifications for prior record enhancement, such as the repeat offender's assumed higher risk of reoffending or greater culpability, are uncertain and have rarely been subjected to critical appraisal. The punitive sentencing premiums for repeat offenders prescribed by US guidelines cannot be justified on grounds of prevention or retribution. Shining a light on a neglected but critically important topic, Paying for the Past examines the costs of prior record enhancements for repeat offenders and offers model guidelines to help reduce racial disparities and reallocate criminal justice resources for jurisdictions who use sentence enhancements.