Fifteen years of guidelines sentencing
Subtitle: an assessment of how well the federal criminal justice system is achieving the goals of sentencing reform.
Contributors: Hofer, Paul J.; United States Sentencing Commission.
Publisher: United States Sentencing Commission
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.; Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States.; Prison sentences -- United States.; Judicial discretion -- United States.
Other titles: 15 years of guidelines sentencing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. A-1 to A 21).
Cover title.
Report submitted to Ricardo H. Hinojosa, chair ... [et al.]. ; prepared by: Paul J. Hofer ... [et al.].
"November 2004."
Also available via the Internet at the United States Sentencing Commission web site. Address as of 11/29/04: http://www.ussc.gov/15%5Fyear/15year.htm.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Preface; title: Introduction to the Sentencing Reform Act; title: Impact of the Sentencing guidelines on the certainty and severity of punishment; title: Presentencing, Inter-judge, and regional disparity; title: Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in federal sentencing today; title: Summary and conclusions.