Guidelines Manual
Author | : United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kate Stith |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1998-10 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Douglas McDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
"A Discussion paper from the BJS Federal Justice Statistics Program."--Cover.
Author | : Douglas McDonald |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1994-11 |
Genre | : Criminal statistics |
ISBN | : 0788114727 |
Examines racial & ethnic disparities imposed on federal offenders before & after implementation of sentencing guidelines authorized by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, & the mandatory minimum imprisonment provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. Patterns in sentences for whites, blacks, & Hispanics were analyzed by controlling for explanatory variables that may be correlated with race or ethnicity. 75 charts, tables & graphs.
Author | : United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : |
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 | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Sentences (Criminal procedure) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States Sentencing Commission |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2015-03-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781508768104 |
Life imprisonment sentences are rare in the federal criminal justice system. Virtually all offenders convicted of a federal crime are released from prison eventually and return to society or, in the case of illegal aliens, are deported to their country of origin. Yet in fiscal year 2013 federal judges imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without parole on 153 offenders. Another 168 offenders received a sentence of a specific term of years that was so long it had the practical effect of being a life sentence. Although together these offenders represent only 0.4 percent of all offenders sentenced that year, this type of sentence sets them apart from the rest of the offender population. This report examines life sentences in the federal system and the offenders on whom this punishment is imposed. There are numerous federal criminal statutes that authorize a life imprisonment sentence to be imposed as the maximum sentence. The most commonly used of these statutes involve drug trafficking, racketeering, and firearms crimes. Additionally, there are at least 45 statutes that require a life sentence to be imposed as the minimum penalty. These mandatory minimum penalties generally are required in cases involving the killing of a federal official or other government employee, piracy, or repeat offenses involving drug trafficking or weapons. In fiscal year 2013, 69 of the 153 offenders who received a sentence of life imprisonment were subject to a mandatory minimum penalty requiring the court to impose that sentence.
Author | : United States |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1506 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
"The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Sentences (Criminal procedure) |
ISBN | : |
Committee Serial No. 14. Considers legislation to establish periodic study groups on Federal sentencing procedure; to authorize courts to determine parole eligibility for Federal prisoners; and to raise maximum age of persons eligible for "youth offender" sentencing procedures.
Author | : |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1428992685 |