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...Collateral Consequences Resource Center Michigan Set-Asides Found to Increase Wages and Reduce Recidivism Preliminary results of an empirical study by two University of Michigan law professors show that setting aside an individual s record of conviction is associated with a signi cant increase...

... © The Ohio State University Memorandum from Attorney General John Ashcroft Setting Forth Justice Department s Sentencing Policies July 28, 2003 EditorÕs Note: Subsection (l) of the enacted Feeney Amendment would have required the Attorney General to subm it a report to Congress following...

..., Some Problems and Issues in the Recog- nition of Indigenous Customary Law, 3(82) Aboriginal L. Bull. 4-9, 8 (July 1996). 23. I. Potas & J. Walker, Capital Punishment, 3 Trends & Issues in Crime & Crim. Just. (1987). Sentencing inCustomary or Tribal Settings...

...U.S. Sentencing Commission © The Ohio State University U.S. Sentencing Commission to Implement First Step Act with Focus on Compassionate Release (press release) Commission Also Sets Other Priorities for the 2022 2023 Amendment Year The United States Sentencing Commission today unanimously...

... © The Ohio State University Memorandum from Attorney General John Ashcroft Setting Forth Justice Department s Charging and Plea Policies September 22, 2003 Editor s Note: On July 28, 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft, responding in part to a directive in the Feeney Amendment, issued...

... © The Ohio State University Memorandum from Attorney General John Ashcroft Setting Forth Justice Department s Fast-Track Policies September 22, 2003 Editor s Note: Subsection (m)(2)(B) of the enacted Feeney Amendment mandated the U.S. Sentencing Commission to promulgate a policy statement...

...Jeffery T. Ulmer; Michael Light © The Ohio State University The 2012 U.S.S.C. Booker Report s Characterization of the Penn State Studies: Setting the Record Straight JEFFERY T. ULMER Professor of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice, The Pennsylvania State University MICHAEL LIGHT Assistant...

... 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...

..., it sets out why indefinitely incarcerating someone with dementia or other neurocognitive disorders violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. This conclusion derives from the confluence of two lines of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. First...

...Hanna Liebman Dershowitz; Rachel Van Etten The Center for Justice and Human Dignity hosted the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit at George Washington Law October 17-18, 2023. This article reviews the presenters’ key comments and the leading insights set forth throughout the Summit regarding...

... not in catching failure, but in facilitating and supporting success. Understanding and challenging current norms on condition setting and enforcement is a key piece of that, and drug testing conditions in particular warrant significant scrutiny and assessment. Ubiquitously imposed, potentially enormously harmful...

... of which can best be answered in an experimental setting. In addition to reviewing the existing research on 24/7, this paper highlights additional research questions and ideas for conducting randomized controlled trials with the program, especially in more urban areas. © The Ohio State University...

... or revocation outcomes for individuals on probation. Results were generated during the development of a set of new risk classification algorithms for individuals on probation or parole in Georgia. Multiple analytic approaches and predictive factors were tested in the development of these models that were built...

...Vera Institute of Justice Abstract This article is excerpted from Programs in Criminal Justice Reform, Vera Institute of Justice: Ten-Year Report 1961–1971 , published by the Vera Institute of Justice in 1972. In 1961, Vera's investigators set out to learn everything possible about bail practices...

... a voluntary program of alcohol detoxification; (2) whether such a program would be workable in a nonhospital setting; and (3) whether on completion of detoxification, the men would accept referral to other types of programs for ongoing care. © The Ohio State University sentencing Skid Row alcoholism...

...) program for dealing with defendants accused of felonies. This research has shown that the ATI system represents a valuable sentencing option in the city. The criminal justice system in New York City includes a unique network of alternatives to incarceration: a coordinated set of programs to which judges...

... in the PLRA cases where the Court has opted not to defer, and offers a preliminary hypothesis as to why this might be. Third and finally, it calls for a theory of deference for the prison law context, i.e., for the development of principles to guide judicial deference in prison law cases and to set...

.... However, this prediction assumes that relief and leniency decisions would not change if statutory and guideline minimums were altered; to allow for this possibility, I run another set of simulations, taking these possible offsetting effects into account. My latter simulations predict that trafficking...

... of law and policy reform. This article begins by introducing the problem, through a set of studies in North Carolina, a state that along with many others has expanded the number and inflexibility of criminal fines and fees. First, a study of a novel North Carolina dataset illustrates the scale...

... looks the same today as it did pre- Booker —the U.S. Probation Office prepares a presentence report (PSR), the parties litigate over the guidelines calculations set forth in the PSR, and the judge makes a ruling as to the appropriate guidelines range. The work of the U.S. Sentencing Commission also...