Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Guidelines Manual
Author: United States Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Developing Sentencing Guidelines
Author: Jack M. KressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Developing Sentencing Guidelines
Author: Arthur M. GelmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Sentencing Guidelines
Author: Andrew AshworthPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191507504
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The politics of criminal sentencing has recently crystallised around the issue of whether and how a system of structured sentencing should inform judicial approaches to punishing criminals. Increasingly, structured sentencing guidelines are being introduce to frame judicial discretion. This volume is the first to examine the experience in England and Wales in the light of international developments. This collection of essays begins with a clear and concise history of the guidelines as well as a description of how they function. Topics addressed include the effect of guidelines on judicial practice, the role of public opinion in developing sentencing guidelines, the role of the crime victim in sentencing guidelines, and the use of guidelines by practicing barristers. In addition, the international dimension offers a comparative perspective: the English guidelines are explored by leading academics from the United States and New Zealand. Although there is a vast literature on sentencing guidelines across the United States, the English guidelines have attracted almost no attention from scholars. As other jurisdictions look to introduce more structure to sentencing, the English scheme offers a real alternative to current US schemes. Contributors include practicing lawyers, legal and socio-legal academics, and also scholars from several other countries including New Zealand and the United States, providing a multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional approach to sentencing. This book will be of interest to academics from law, sociology and criminology, legal practitioners, and indeed anyone else with an interest in sentencing, around the world.
Developing sentencing guidelines
Author: Arthur M. GelmanDeveloping Sentencing Guidelines
Author: Jack M. KressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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.
Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy
Author: Arie FreibergPublisher: Hawkins Press
ISBN: 9781876067212
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
With particular emphasis on the emerging role of sentencing commissions, advisory councils or panels in a number of English speaking countries, this book brings together the theoretical perspectives on the role of the public in the development of sentencing policy.Freiberg and Gelb expand and develop the existing literature that looks at public attitudes to justice and the role that the "public" can play in influencing policy. It asks the critical questions: even if "public opinion", or preferably, "public judgment" can be ascertained in relation to a particular sentencing issue, should it be relevant to court decision-making, to institutional decision-making and to the political process? And if so, how?For the first time, descriptions and analyses of new and proposed sentencing advisory bodies in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Scotland and South Africa are outlined and provided. Further, it adds to the knowledge in the field of public opinion by presenting practical examples of ways in which the public has a role in sentencing - illustrating the implementation of recommendations that have been made in existing research over the past few years. These recommendations have focussed on ways to improve public knowledge about the criminal justice system in order to counter political platforms and public outcries that are based on misinformation and misconceptions about the criminal justice system and in particular, about the nature of current sentencing practice.The book is structured in two parts. Part 1 deals with general matters relating to public opinion: our knowledge of what it is or purports to be, and how that influences or shapes sentencing policy. Part 2 deals with the development, and nature of, sentencing councils and their roles vis a vis the public, government and courts.
The Role of an Appellate Court in Developing Sentencing Guidelines
Author: Alan YoungPublisher:
ISBN: 9780662158844
Category : Appellate courts
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Voluntary Sentencing Guidelines Manual 2019
Author: The District of C. Sentencing CommissionPublisher:
ISBN: 9781690055426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
In 1998 the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission ("the Commission") was charged with developing a comprehensive structured sentencing system for the District or explaining why no such system was needed. After examining the system then in effect, the Commission concluded that the District could benefit from a comprehensive structured sentencing system. Thereafter, the Commission embarked upon the difficult task of creating workable sentencing guidelines for felonies. Following the lead of other jurisdictions and an earlier effort in the District, the Commission developed two Grids -- one for drug cases and one for all other cases -- to plot two of the dominant factors in sentencing: the offense of conviction (on the vertical axis) and the criminal history of the offender (on the horizontal axis). At the intersection of these two factors on the Grids, each box contains the sentencing options and prison ranges for that particular combination of the crime of conviction and criminal history of the offender. In general, as the seriousness of the offense and the criminal history of the offender increase, the length of the prison sentences increase and the alternatives to incarceration decrease.