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Reviewing the modern persistence of persistence of sentencing guidelines

By Douglas A. Berman

This new piece appearing on SSRN, which is titled "Guidelines as Guidelines: Lessons from the History of Sentencing Reform," ensured itself a mention on this blog by mentioning this blog in its abstract.  But, as the abstract for this piece suggests, there are other reasons why the piece is recommended reading:  Over the last thirty years, sentencing guidelines have become an increasingly prominent feature of the American criminal justice system.  Between the Supreme Court?s Apprendi-Blakely-Booker line of cases, dedicated law reviews like the Federal Sentencing Reporter, multitudinous other law review pieces, and Doug Berman?s famous sentencing blog, a great deal of ink has been spilled discussing the contours and future of guidelines reform...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 09, 2009 (boomark / email).