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

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

Debate across the pond on sentencing and sentencing guidelines

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader sent me this interesting story from The Times, which is headlined "Sentencing Council: judges told that justice is safe from ?tramline? sentencing."  The piece is intrguing not only because it details the recent history of sentencing reform efforts in the UK, but also because it echoes the recent history and debate over US federal sentencing law and policy.  Here is how the piece begins: It must be the toughest judicial brief going: tasked with overseeing sentencing in England and Wales, when prisons are full to bursting and there is no money to build any more.  But Lord Justice Leveson is firm about one thing: ?I have not considered this as a brief to produce guidelines that are going to reduce the prison population.? Leveson, 60, a senior Court of Appeal judge, took on the role in April of chairing the new Sentencing Council...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).