Sentencing and Sentencing Guidelines
Sentencing Guidelines Council
... the Sentencing Advisory Panel in preparing the advice on which this guideline has been based and for the many organisations and individuals who have responded so thoughtfully to the consultation of both the Panel ...
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Assessing the Impact of Sentencing Guidelines in Adolescent Criminal Recidivism.
... correlates specific variables such as race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, mental health, and traumatic experiences with criminal behavior, however a paucity of research exists that examines the relationship between ...
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Discretionary Sentencing in Military Commissions: Why and How the Sentencing Guidelines in the Military Commissions Act Should be Changed
... The sentencing guidelines provided by the MCA, which grant wide discretion to the commissions, is surely an area requiring ...the sentencing guidelines and rules to propose changes that should ...
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Effect of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Interjudge Sentencing Disparity
... A combined model treating judges as nested within cities is superior, and permits us to obtain an inter-city as well as inter-judge effect."' Further, Payne tested for differences in ave[r] ...
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The Role of Gender in a Structured Sentencing System: Equal Treatment, Policy Choices, and the Sentencing of Female Offenders under the United States Sentencing Guidelines
... In an effort to assess the impact of guidelines on traditional patterns of lenient treatment of female offenders, this section examines United States Sentencing Commission data on the se[r] ...
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A Proposal to Resolve the Interpretation of Mixture or Substance Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
... 56 However, with respect to PCP or methamphetamine, mandatory minimum sentences may be based either on the weight of a "mixture or substance" or on the lower weight of the pure drug.5 7 [r] ...
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Structuring Sentencing Discretion: The New Federal Sentencing Guidelines
... fraud, robbery, or drugs; 2 the base sentence for each offense would be determined as a result of a discussion process anchored, but not bound by, an examination of estimates of the aver[r] ...
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Federal Sentencing Guidelines The Requirement of Notice for Upward Departure
... 4 1 He said Rule 32 "[provided] for focused, adversarial development of the factual and legal issues relevant to determining the appropriate Guidelines sentence." 4 2 In support of this [r] ...
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Commentary on the Preliminary Draft of the Sentencing Guidelines Issued by the United States Sentencing Commission in September, 1986
... Judges are "not encouraged to go outside of the applicable guideline," therefore, judicial discretion will be confined to applying the appropriate guidelines.16 The constraints on judici[r] ...
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Culpability and Sentencing under Mandatory Minimums and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: The Punishment No Longer Fits the Criminal
... operative guidelines, and by the five other states which have established sentencing commissions. See also id.. Look up the statute of conviction in the statutory ind[r] ...
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Sentencing Guidelines and Prison Population Grouth
... The Pennsylvania legislature considered such a provision, but decided not to include it, and the sentencing commission did not factor in prison capacity.' 7 In fact, the lawmakers reject[r] ...
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Sentencing Guidelines Council Definitive Guideline
... the sentencing framework for youths is very different from that for adults, and a guideline for sentencing young offenders will follow in due course, the Council considered that sentencers would find it ...
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Florida's Initial Experience with Sentencing Guidelines
... Four circuits were selected to participate in the study: the fourth judicial circuit (consisting of Duval, Clay and Nassau counties); the tenth judicial circuit (consi[r] ...
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Punishment of Health Care Fraud
... determinate sentencing since the enactment of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 [hereinafter ...States Sentencing Commission (within the judicial branch of the federal government), which was ...
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Sentencing the Green Collar Offender: Punishment, Culpability, and Environmental Crime
... REFORMING THE ENVIRONMENTAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES This Part proposes a fundamental restructuring of the environmental guidelines, outlining seven principles that ought to guide reform: 1[r] ...
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A sentencing exception? Changing sentencing policy in Scotland
... a sentencing council although the Liberal Democrat spokesman was concerned about the costs of such a new institution at a time of financial stringency and wanted to ensure that the final authority over any ...
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Sentencing Reform Lessons: From the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 to the Feeney Amendment
... What began with the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 "SRA", and was soon followed by the Sentencing Guidelines, has been continually criticized by both the judiciary and the legislature.1 I[r] ...
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Separation of Powers The Federal Sentencing Commission: Unconstitutional Delegation and Threat to Judicial Impartiality
... 10 0 Justice Blackmun noted that judges have played primary roles in sentencing.10 1 Furthermore, like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Sentencing Guidelines bound judges and co[r] ...
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The Question Concerning Technology in Compliance
... The 2004 revision to the Sentencing Guidelines takes organizational culture into account by emphasizing, in addition to steps taken to detect and prevent misconduct, corporate actions th[r] ...
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Sentencing Eddie
... Nor am I questioning the idea of sentencing guidelines and control of judicial discretionnote that if Eddie had received even the lowest available guideline sentence for the crime he was[r] ...
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