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US Sentencing Commission to conduct a data and research conference in May

By Douglas A. Berman

I just noticed on the US Sentencing Commission's website this very exciting news: "The United States Sentencing Commission will present a data and research conference in Washington, D.C. on May 5-7, 2009."  This link provides these additional details: This conference will help researchers use Commission data by demonstrating how to find and access Commission?s data and research as well as providing instructional help in working with the Commission?s individual offender datafiles.  The conference will be held in the Federal Judicial Center Auditorium of the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C. near Union Station and Capitol Hill. The conference will provide attendees with an indepth understanding of how the Commission?s individual offender data is assembled, including how the data is collected from documents submitted to the Commission and how the data is checked for accuracy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).