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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2025) 37 (2): 160–168.
Published: 01 May 2025
... of the impressive breakout sessions over the next two days. Rather, I hope to challenge you to think critically about the realities of crime and punishment in America so that you can help our democracy chart a new course to a more just and humane response to crime. Today we mark fifty years since...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2004) 17 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 October 2004
...Frank O. Bowman, III © The Ohio State University EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Function Over Formalism: A Provisional Theory of the Constitutional Law of Crime and Punishment FRANK O. BOWMAN, III M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis This Issue of FSR...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2008) 20 (5): 299–303.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Robert C. "Bobby" Scott © The Ohio State University Tougher Federal Criminal Penalties versus More Crime Prevention Funding As chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, and as a national and state legislator for over thirty years, I have observed that, when it comes to crime...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2018) 31 (1): 52–57.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police © The Ohio State University Punishment That Works Less Crime A Safe Society: Report to the Storting on the Norwegian Correctional Services (English Summary) NORWEGIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AND THE POLICE SUMMARY Part I. The Background to the Proposals...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2005) 17 (4): 263–268.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Phillip C. Zane © The Ohio State University 07.FSR17.4_263-268.qxd 7/12/05 1:43 PM Page 263 Booker Unbound: How the New Sixth Amendment Jurisprudence Affects Deterring and Punishing Major Financial Crimes and What to Do About It Sentences for federal offenses have many components...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2021) 34 (1): 80–88.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., cocaine, and cannabis were extremely dangerous, led to other crime, and prevalently were used and sold by immigrants and other despised groups. Public pressure for more severe punishment seemed to peak twice, in the 1920s and 1950s, in response to exaggerated threats such as “dope peddlers” targeting...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2011) 24 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 October 2011
... factors and tries to achieve one or more of the oft-cited purposes of punishment: incapacitation (to protect the public from further crimes committed by the defendant), deterrence, restitution, retribution, and rehabilitation. The federal sentencing statute instructs the court not to impose a sentence...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2023) 35 (4-5): 304–310.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jonathan J. Wroblewski Abstract In the summer of 1985, I had a chance meeting with Marvin Frankel. It would begin a career-long adventure into the world of federal sentencing, a looking-glass world where acquittals lead to punishment, rapes and robberies are not violent crimes, prosecutors gain...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2022) 35 (1): 6–8.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... It was at the heyday of a moral panic about crime (before crime rates declined), when rehabilitation had been discredited and retribution in the ascendance. Picking a number to curb disparity in sentencing – any number - and increasing punishment trumped any other sentencing purpose. Reevaluation is critical: First...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2021) 33 (4): 259–261.
Published: 01 April 2021
... important, is there a better way? Can we ensure we have both safety and dignity built into our system? These questions are extremely difficult for law makers to answer because of the moral implications involved with crime and punishment, but also because of one glaring weakness: data sharing and reporting...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2022) 34 (2-3): 98–106.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of punishment, the continued expansion of restitution s de nitional ambit reveals an underlying punitive motivation as well. Federal restitution statutes require any person sentenced for a crime with an identi ed victim whether it be an individual, a business, a state or federal agency, or any number of other...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2023) 35 (4-5): 262–267.
Published: 01 April 2023
... it work? Does it impart justice? Historically, working has t into four rationales: providing retribution, or satisfaction; deterring new crime through the fear of punishment; incapacitating people so they don t have the opportunity to commit additional crimes; and rehabilitating people who engage...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2009) 21 (4): 288–290.
Published: 01 April 2009
... be quite content with the current level of severity of penalties. [This is representative of a trend: increased information lowers people s initial desire for punitive measures and initiates an interest for alternative sentencing (not imprisonment) Eds.] Rethinking Crime & Punishment (RCP) was set up...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2008) 20 (5): 320–321.
Published: 01 June 2008
... punishments encourages recidivism and, therefore, is detrimental to public safety. Having proclaimed twenty years ago that crime could best be solved and deterred by locking up as many criminals as possible for as long as possible, our legislators have instead managed to create a vast pool that includes...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2001) 14 (1): 35–39.
Published: 01 July 2001
... 13, 1994, when the President signed into law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. A part of this law, known as the Federal Death Penalty Act (FDPA), provided that over 40 federal offenses could be punished as capital crimes. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2015) 27 (3): 187–192.
Published: 01 February 2015
... Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an argument similar to Shaffer s in United States v. Lee, 428 F.2d 917 (6th Cir. 1970). The defendant in Lee was convicted under a federal statute that provided: It shall be unlawful for any person who is under indictment or who has been convicted of a crime punishable...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 332–336.
Published: 01 May 2002
... so that fewer nonviolent crimes are punishable by prison terms.Ó7 ¥ A Field Poll of Californians and a Pennsylvania State University survey of Pennsylvanians conducted in December found that citizens of those two states are more willing to cut spending on corrections to balance the state budget than...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2006) 19 (2): 113–118.
Published: 01 December 2006
... (Einstellung, with or without conditions) or penalty by court order (Strafbefehl). These options are, however, not available if the crime in question is classified as a felony. It is also important to consider that the phases of trial (is the defendant guilty or not?) and sentencing (what punishment...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2006) 18 (4): 264–270.
Published: 01 April 2006
... not consider the individual s conduct. Instead, the focus is exclusively on the nature of the crime.29 C. Removal as Punishment The value of using removal as the sole immigration sanction depends on the purpose for which removal is intended. Removal is treated as a civil sanction, not a punishment, even when...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2020) 32 (3): 125–127.
Published: 01 February 2020
... illuminate the path forward. © The Ohio State University sentencing crime punishment guidelines sentencing guidelines supreme court Congress Justice Breyer EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Looking Backward and Moving Forward STEVEN L. CHANENSON FSR Co-Managing Editor; Professor of Law, Villanova...