Have Federal Sentencing Guidelines Reduced Severity? An Examination of One Circuit
Congress intended to make the sentencing process less discretionary and more equitable for similarly situated defendants when it passed the U.S. Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. Sentencing guidelines were devised to promote these changes. After more than a decade of implementation, however, little is...
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2001
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2001, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 111-144 |
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