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... democratic character, Booker should be read as a demand for democracy in sentencing. This demand echoes the one imbued in the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s statutory charter, which gives the agency unique potential to create administrative governance that is of the people, for the people, and by the people...

...Michael M. O’Hear EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS Punishment, Democracy, and Victims MICHAEL M. O HEAR Associate Professor, Marquette University Law School Editor, Federal Sentencing Reporter Through its passage of the Crime Victims Rights Act in 2004, Congress has responded once again to longstanding...

...Victor L. Shammas The Dissolution of Social Democracy: How Law and Order Came to Norway I. Introduction While the United States grapples with the debilitating consequences of mass incarceration (Western, 2007), and parts of Europe remain caught in a penal turn (Wacquant, 1999) with burgeoning...

...-leveling process under which juveniles’ emerging right to be free from merciless punishments would apply to everyone. This is the norm in other Western democracies, which have gravitated toward universal human rights and moderate punishment. A broader outlook may spell the difference between a conception...

... Trump’s practices have rendered pardoning on the federal level democratically suspect and suggests a mechanism for re-invigorating pardoning as a democratic process. © The Ohio State University Pardoning clemency President Donald Trump theatricality democracy clemency advisory board lay...

... from within, attacked by their own citizens, by men such as Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini. They attacked free institutions because they did not believe an open society, committed to democracy, could provide for the security and welfare of its citizens. In this century democracy s enemies come from...

... as part of the Revolution had also divided up the royal powers of pardon. The new judicial borrowing from England, the jury, allowed the sovereign people to exercise direct democracy as part of the judicial arm of government. In the early days, this mostly consisted of deciding whom to send...

.... In the last century free societies were attacked from within, attacked by their own citizens, by men such as Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini. They attacked free institutions because they did not believe an open society, committed to democracy, could provide for the security and welfare of its citizens...

... reflected in policymaking around sentencing. To spark that change, the Sentencing Commission must partner with scholars, journalists, practitioners, judges, and incarcerated people to develop more just, evidence-based policies. © The Ohio State University incarceration sentencing democracy racism...

...Michael M. O’Hear When Voters Choose the Sentence: The Drug Policy Initiatives in Arizona, California, Ohio, and Michigan Direct democracy has played an increasingly important role in state sentencing policy over the past decade. In the 1990Õs, voters in several states adopted three-strikes...

... spending1 Consequently, advocates now considering possible next steps for federal sentencing reform would be wise to keep abreast of state trends and developments. In doing so, they will learn that several intrepid states have been living up to Justice Brandeis vision of them as a laboratories of democracy...

... “convince judges that its sentencing guidelines are fair, are just, and are worth following.” 17 They focus on the values of democracy embedded in the SRA and the significance of the commission’s commitment to soliciting and considering input from stakeholders both in and out of government. Their work...

..., httpswww.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions. DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.1525/fsr.2021.33.3.184. 184 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 33, NO. 3 FEBRUARY 2021 Frank rst focused on the effect of the judicial robe on its occupant. Robes, he argued, are historically connected with desire to thwart democracy by means...

... society on fair and just terms, including to participate in the political and economic advancement of Virginia; and WHEREAS, the restoration of civil rights has been noted to achieve substantial bene ts for those individuals who have felt long-exiled from mainstream life; and WHEREAS, democracy...

... of thenature of theoffensecommittedor the sentence imposed. This ismost disturbing in thefourteen states which deny felons voting rights for life, even upon a probationary sentence. Moreover, such large-scaleand permanent disenfranchisement isundemocratic and out of stepwith other (Western)democracies...

... allies. . . . As described below, Mr. Libby would continue to develop his expertise in bio-defense, and this knowledge became particularly critical after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. While at the Pentagon, Mr. Libby also helped to bring stability and democracy to Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War...

... out of step with other Western democracies. For more information on the Robina Institute s Probation Revocation Project, visit www.robinainstitute.org/ probation-revocation-project/. References Aebi, Marcelo F. and Julien Chopin, COUNCIL OF EUROPE ANNUAL PENAL STATISTICS: SPACE II SURVEY 2013: PERSONS...

... that we re living on borrowed time. In an election year, especially, it often feels as if we are just one terrible case away from returning to the days of Willie Horton. We can t let that happen. Criminal justice is too important, too central to the well-being of the nation and to our democracy...

..., federal judges in a democracy may be scrutinized, and may even be unfairly criticized. Subject to removal from office upon conviction of impeachment, Article III judges have been given lifetime tenure precisely to be better able to withstand such criticism, not to be immune from it. That the Congress...

... about achieving an imprisonment rate that resembles that of Western democracies rather than autocratic and repressive regimes. We need their support in nding humanity but they not be the most suitable leaders in reimagining a system that needs a fundamental overhaul if we are serious about achieving...