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...Amy Farrell; Geoff Ward © The Ohio State University Examining District Variation in Sentencing in the Post-Booker Period Amy Farrell Northeastern University Geoff Ward University of California, Irvine I. Introduction The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which established the Sentencing...

... using data for approximately 154,000 individuals who began probation or parole between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2019. Accuracy at predicting rearrest was improved by implementing time-period-specific models; using recent rather than lifetime criminal history; and incorporating dynamic measures...

... participants about life in the first thirty days after getting out of prison or jail. Those first days and weeks appear to be critical, with arrest rates for released prisoners highest soon after release and declining over time. The study showed that the first month is not only a period of difficulties...

...John G. Malcolm Abstract Beginning in the 1980’s, Congress passed a series of “tough on crime” mandatory minimum sentences. While increased periods of incarceration contributed to reduced crime rates, the pendulum has swung too far. Mandatory minimum sentences designed for “kingpins” are often...

.... In searching for an alternative to periodic arrests of destitute alcoholics, the program had to resolve conflicting theories of health administration and alcoholism treatment. In its first year of operation, the Manhattan Bowery Project's primary goals were to test (1) whether Bowery alcoholics would accept...

..., reentry providers and researchers have made the case that providing opportunities, particularly for work, during the reentry period can reduce recidivism. The author concludes that meeting the needs of returning community members is an important piece of a bigger agenda: investing in and growing human...

... and traffickers serving longer periods of incarceration. As a result, the federal correctional system is overburdened. A noticeable change in attitude is evident. Congress has offered leniency for certain first-time drug offenders in the form of a statutory safety valve. While a progressive step, the safety valve...

... financial means. This study uses fine, cost, and restitution imposition and collection data from the Administrative Office of the Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) that spans a ten year period to examine whether there are differences in assessment and outstanding debt balances between defendants with private...

... a number of harms related to these sanctions, especially for those experiencing the notably turbulent period after being released from incarceration. One of the key claims heard with increased frequency is that these accrued debts encourage people to reoffend, minimizing individuals’ chances of successful...

... of such debt, where one in twelve adults in the state owe criminal debt. Much of that debt is concentrated in lower-level traffic and misdemeanor cases. Further, individuals who do not pay court costs or fines within a short time period never do so. Second, a study of driver’s license suspensions illustrates...

..., federal law justifies supervision to ease the defendant’s return to the community, while the revocation mechanism subordinates the defendant’s interests to the safety of the public. One way to resolve this contradiction would be to return to Congress’s original plan for supervised release as a period...

... was set up the way it was. During the second and dominant phase, which lasted for roughly two decades, from 1986 until 2007, the Commission played a weak supporting role to the political actors who oversaw its work, with Congress largely controlling its output. This period was characterized by political...

... which examined whether the length of sentences imposed on federal offenders was correlated with demographic characteristics of those offenders.1 That analysis found that some demographic factors were associated with sentence length to a statistically signi cant extent during some of the time periods...

... Composition The portion of the federal caseload attributable to child pornography production offenses has increased since the Post-Koon Period. The percentages of the federal caseload comprised of child pornography production offenses across the four time periods are as follows: The Post-Koon Period 0.1...

... recently published in March 2010.10 The Commission s sentencing data analyses spanned a broad time frame, from October 1995 through September 2011. In most instances, four periods were examined: the Koon period (June 13, 1996 through April 30, 2003), the PROTECT Act period (May 1, 2003 through June 24...

... increased in the later post-Booker period. Analyses concluded that disparity affecting Blacks, in particular Black males, has increased since the 2006 report was written. The 2010 report also found that noncitizens are increasingly sentenced more harshly than U.S. citizens, and that gender disparity...

... has now repeated the analysis used for the Booker Report with additional data and has also developed a second methodology to examine that data. This report presents the results of that work. This report focused on three separate time periods which together spanned the time between May 1, 2003...

... ? The Commission also sought to examine the appellate courts’ responses to Booker , particularly whether they were developing case law on what constitutes a “reasonable” sentence. 19 In compiling this “ Booker report,” the Commission reviewed three relevant time periods to ascertain historical sentencing...

... their methodology, the study s analytical scope (for example, the U.S.S.C. analyzed departures this time, and included comparisons with more time periods such as the Koon era), and the degree to which it engages other research on post-Booker/Gall sentencing. I am glad the U.S.S.C. clearly engaged and attempted...

... and Emerson Tiller,9 I have compiled a data set of more than 2,200 sentences from 2002 to 2008 by a core group of judges in Boston who served continuously throughout that period.10 Although a single district court is not necessarily representative of the nation as a whole, and the judges of the District...