Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

Early federal sentencing data presents from the US Sentencing Commission

By Douglas A. Berman

Data junkies, rejoice!  The number-crunching elves working inside the US Sentencing Commission (which is inside the Beltway just south of the North Pole) have finished making the present that every federal sentencing nerd like me wants for the holidays: new batches of federal sentencing data.  Specifically, now to be found on the USSC's main webpage are these data-licious announcements: December 2008 Preliminary Post-Kimbrough/Gall Data Report:  An updated set of tables presenting preliminary data on fiscal year 2008 cases sentenced on or after December 10, 2007 through September 30, 2008. This report was prepared using data received, coded, and edited by the Commission by November 3, 2008. FY2008 4th Quarterly Sentencing Update:  An extensive set of tables and charts presenting cumulative quarterly data on cases sentenced in fiscal year 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).