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... as youth charged with criminal activity. To better help youth and their families, many status offender systems are implementing immediate, family-focused alternatives to court intervention, first referring at-risk young people and their families to social service programs in their communities and using...

... improvements fail to achieve the status of “groundbreaking.” This is particularly evident when considering its approach to reduction in sentence of elderly offenders. Since 2013, compassionate release has stood as the exclusive process available for worthy elderly offenders to request early release from prison...

..., and the impact that usage may have on the criminal justice system. I. Habitual Status Offenders Habitual status offender laws in North Carolina pre-date the enactment of Structured Sentencing. These laws enhance the punishment class for repeat offenders and are designed to address both deterrence...

... and the crime rate? Is there a correlation between offense type and immigration status? On the operational side, how has the federal system dealt with non-citizen offenders? What special challenges do immigrant offenders present? How uniform has the treatment of non-citizens been across different districts...

... determined and that the aim of the criminal system should be to treat when it can and incapacitate when it cannot.4 Jeremy Bentham s utilitarian punishment system proposed that penalties be individualized to offenders sensibilities by which he meant their personal characteristics, on the basis of judges...

... convictions are similar to or the same as the current offense, there may be an argument for determining the magnitude of the premium by reference to the seriousness of the current crime. However, in systems blind to the relationship between current and prior offending, it is hard to see why the magnitude...

... sentencing system embodies an empirically based risk assessment process that is tied directly to prison population and explicit diversion thresholds with due regard for public safety. The purpose of the risk assessment instrument is to identify, among nonviolent offenders, good candidates for alternative...

... to view and assess an offender at sentencing. Consequently, the Constitution s jury trial right does not preclude a judge from making alone those findings concerning offender characteristics that the law deems relevant to sentencing determinations. B. The Status and Scope of the Prior Conviction...

..., the SRA system discounted the offender s socio-economic status, educational achievement, and family and community ties, aiming to mete out the imprisonment component of the sentence based primarily on the criminal act.9 A set period of supervised release would follow nearly all prison sentences and would...

... of whitecollar offenders in the federal system.3 Second, it is arguably more plausible to attribute disparity in whitecollar sentencing to judges and prosecutors rather than police or Congress. Police do not typically initiate independent investigations of white-collar crime. In addition, political pressuresÑat...

... or an offender, what interventions (if any) to apply, and how to go about applying them. The use of a statistically valid and objective actuarial risk assessment can greatly enhance the implementation of the Risk Principle throughout the system. Given the importance of pretrial decisions, including the question...

... based assessments. These methods are very common classification tools in correctional settings. Longitudinal studies on prisoners and offenders identify those prisoner attributes that are associated with misconduct, escapes, and recidivism. These risk factors are then translated into a scoring system...

... cally, Part A of the amendment makes targeted changes to reduce the impact of providing additional criminal history points for offenders under a criminal justice sentence (commonly known as status points and Part B, Subpart 1 provides a two- level downward adjustment for certain offenders with zero...

... those who have zero criminal history points actually represent a range of offenders. At one end of the spectrum are offenders with zero criminal history points who have absolutely no prior recorded contact with the criminal justice system. At the other end of the spectrum are offenders with zero...

... of Corrections and the Board of Probation and Parole, has developed this information-based system over the past seven years. The statisticians of the corrections department have maintained the data on which the system is based, data that have tracked Missouri offenders for at least the past 25 years.4 Michael...

... legislation. Realignment took effect on October 1, 2011. It substantively altered three major issues within the criminal justice system: where prisoners serve time for certain offenses, who is responsible for supervising them after their release, and the time served by offenders who have violated the terms...

.... In this piece, I will do three things. After I set out the context, I will rst describe, albeit in an over-simpli ed manner, how the federal supervised release system presently uses actuarial data to supervise offenders once they are released from prison. Second, I will give examples of how certain types...

... complexity, overly severe penalties for some offenders, and increasing sentencing disparities. Unlike some earlier reformers, I am under no illusion that we can achieve perfect justice in a federal sentencing regime. Because we should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I propose a system...

... be justi ed on recidivism prediction grounds,122 we urge it to eliminate or restrict the use of status points and consider making any ameliorative amendment to §4A1.1(d) retroactive. Modify §4B1.1(b) s CHC VI requirement. According to §4B1.1(b) A career offender s criminal history category in every case...

... be corrected, as demonstrated by the state of Kansas, who addressed this very issue in 2001, with limited impact on the criminal justice system as a whole. The impact of Blakely on sentencing in Minnesota, while temporarily disruptive, is limited in scope and can be addressed within the current sentencing...