Real Offense Sentencing: The Model Sentencing and Corrections Act

Risk Assessment in sentencing and corrections

Summary. Sentencing law and sentencing decision making

The initial context of this research – judicial cooperation with regard to consistency in sentencing This dissertation is part of a research project in which the phenomenon of judicial cooperation in several areas of the law has been taken as a starting point. The concept of judicial cooperation describes informal structures and products thereof of judicial policymaking for the purpose of the s...

Current Developments in Corrections and the Lawyer's Role at Sentencing

The Fragmentation of Sentencing and Corrections in America

After a quarter century of changes, there is no longer anything that can be called “the American system” of sentencing and corrections. As recently as 1975, there was a distinctively American approach, usually referred to as indeterminate sentencing, and it had changed little in the preceding 50 years. Its core features were broad authorized sentencing ranges, parole release, and caseby-case de...

Sentencing Under the Federal Youth Corrections Act: When May a Youth Be Treated as an Adult?