Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judicial discretion
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Report on the Continuing Impact of United States V. Booker on Federal Sentencing
Author: Final Report on the Impact of United States V. Booker on Federal Sentencing
Author: Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
United States V. Booker
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Three Years Post-Booker
Author: Rae Allison DorerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judicial discretion
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
This study examined the effect of the Booker decision on federal sentencing. In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Booker that the federal sentencing guidelines were no longer mandatory merely advisory, restoring judges' discretion in sentencing. To assess the effect of this decision, United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) data from 2002 through 2008 was retrieved, assessed, and analyzed to ascertain possible trends for federal sentencing.
Demographic Differences in Federal Sentencing Practices
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781547050833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
In 2006, the United States Sentencing Commission1 undertook a review of the impact on federal sentencing of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Booker.2 In March 2006, the Commission published the results of that review in the Final Report on the Impact of United States v. Booker on Federal Sentencing.3 As part of that report, the Commission performed an analysis of data from the federal courts to examine whether differences in the length of sentences imposed on offenders were correlated with demographic characteristics of those offenders. Based on continued interest in this issue, and in response to specific requests to update its prior analysis, the Commission has now repeated the analysis used for the Booker Report with additional data and has also developed a second methodology to examine that data. This report presents the results of that work. This report focused on three separate time periods which together spanned the time between May 1, 2003, and September 30, 2009. The Commission found a correlation between the length of sentences imposed on some groups of offenders and the demographic characteristics of those offenders. These differences were not present in all time periods under study and differed in magnitude in the time periods in which they were observed.
Demographic Differences in Federal Sentencing Practices
Author: Implications of the Booker/Fanfan Decisions for the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Federal Sentencing the Basics
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN: 9781688991422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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.
Fear of Judging
Author: Kate StithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226774862
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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.