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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 369–372.
Published: 01 May 2002
...John S. Goldkamp; Michael D. White; Jennifer B. Robinson An Honest Chance: Perspectives on Drug Courts Findings From Drug Court Participant Focus Groups in Brooklyn, Las Vegas, Miami, Portland, San Bernardino, and Seattle April 2002 EditorÕs Note: In a recent issue, FSR publis hed a de bate...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2015) 28 (1): 4–15.
Published: 01 October 2015
...PEW Public Safety Performance Project © The Ohio State University Federal Drug Sentencing Laws Bring High Cost, Low Return: Penalty Increases Enacted in 1980s and 1990s Have Not Reduced Drug Use or Recidivism PEW PUBLIC SAFETY PERFORMANCE PROJECT Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2018) 31 (1): 21–27.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Ingunn Seim © The Ohio State University The Norwegian Drug Court Model An Alternative to Incarceration for Criminal Drug Addicts I. Introduction Several countries have established special penalties for drug addicts as a part of the ght against drug-related crime. Experiences from Ireland1...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2000) 12 (5): 252–257.
Published: 01 March 2000
...). 4. 21 U.S.C. § 862 Denial of Federal Benefits toDrug Traffickersand Drug Possessors: A Broad-Reaching But Seldom Used Sanction ROBERT W. MUSSER, JR. Supervising U. S. Pro bation Officer, District of Nevada I. Introduction The Denial of Federal BenefitsProgramwas enacted into law on November...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2000) 12 (6): 347–355.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Views from the Sentencing Commission Statement of Vice-Chair JohnR. Steer on Drug Sentencing Policy and Trends before the House Governmental Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources May 11, 2000 Editors' Note: On May u, 2000, theHouse of Representa tivews...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2024) 36 (4): 188–194.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Aliza Cohen; Melissa Moore This paper examines the multilayered dynamics behind the drivers of overdose deaths, criminal legal-system involvement, and the drug war infiltration of people’s everyday lives—especially for people under community supervision. While incarceration receives more media...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2016) 28 (4): 259–263.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Matthew G. Rowland © The Ohio State University Projecting Recidivism Rates for Federal Drug Offenders Released Early from Prison The federal government prosecutes and convicts nearly 25,000 people a year for drug crimes.1 The most common sentencing option is prison, and drug offenders...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2006) 18 (4): 289–290.
Published: 01 April 2006
...Wade Henderson © The Ohio State University Statement of Wade Henderson: Drug Sentencing Practices and Issues On behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation s oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, I am pleased to submit the following...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2025) 37 (2): 138–142.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Mona Lynch Abstract The federal sentencing guidelines for drug trafficking offenses use the metric of drug weight as a proxy for culpability in determining the seriousness of the offense. In light of the insights offered by McSweeney et al. in their report (in this issue) on the over-punishment...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2025) 37 (2): 132–137.
Published: 01 May 2025
... is to draw distinctions between the authors’ approach and what I refer to as conventional approaches to sentencing research, with a particular emphasis on the issue of sentencing disparities. I argue that their analysis of maritime drug traffickers, or “boat defendants,” provides insights that can inform...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2025) 37 (2): 99–102.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Douglas A. Berman; Steven L. Chanenson Abstract A new dataset capturing sentencing outcomes for “boat defendants,” a notable group of federal drug offenders who share many characteristics, provides a fresh perspective on many different aspects of federal case-processing and drug-sentencing outcomes...
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Published: 01 May 2025
FIGURE 1 Total number of suspected drug smugglers detained at sea as reported by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), fiscal years (FYs) 2009–22, with the actual (FY 2017) and estimated (all other years) shares prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. Sources: USCG Annual Performance Reports (FYs More
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2024) 36 (5): 262–265.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Jack B. Weinstein; Fred A. Bernstein © The Ohio State University The Denigration of Mens Rea in Drug Sentencing Originally published in Vol. 7, No. 3 (1994) of Federal Sentencing Reporter JACK B. WEINSTEIN Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York FRED...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2024) 36 (5): 323–325.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Mark Osler © The Ohio State University More Than Numbers: A Proposal for Rational Drug Sentences Originally published in Vol. 19, No. 5 (2007) of Federal Sentencing Reporter With the United States Sentencing Commission seriously challenging crack sentences in a recent report and the Department...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 327–331.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Douglas A. Berman EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS The Start of the Next Revolution?: Recent State Reforms in the Sentencing of Drug Offenders DOUGLAS A. BERMAN FSR Editor, Associate Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law The last thirty years deÞne a revolutionary period...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 337–343.
Published: 01 May 2002
...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...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 344–349.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Michigan Drug Treatment Initiative Initiative Petition Amendment to the Constitution A petition to reform drug sentencing practices and provide treatment instead of jail time for certain offenders in the state of michigan by amending article I of the michigan constitution to add new sections 24...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 350–358.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Ohio Drug Treatment Initiative Be it resolved by the people of the State of Ohio that Article IV of the Ohio Constitution is amended to add the following section: Section 24 A. Intents and purposes. The purposes and intent of the voters in adding this section to the Ohio constitution...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2002) 14 (6): 359–366.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Arizona Drug Treatment and Education Fund Annual Report November 2001 EditorÕs Note: This excerpted report from the Arizona Supreme Court presents the most recent ofÞcial data on the operations and impact of ArizonaÕs Proposition 200. The complete report can be obtained at http www.s upreme.s...
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Federal Sentencing Reporter (2019) 31 (3): 169–170.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Douglas A. Berman; Steven L. Chanenson © The Ohio State University EDITORS OBSERVATIONS Learning from Recent State Drug Sentencing Reform Efforts DOUGLAS A. BERMAN FSR Co-Managing Editor; Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law STEVEN L...