Sentencing Law and Policy

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  • Douglas A. Berman
  • Robert J. Watkins/Procter & Gamble Professor of Law
  • Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University
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  • Sentencing Law & Policy (4th ed. Wolters Kluwer 2018)
  • FSR cover
  • Federal Sentencing Reporter
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  • Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law

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Recent Posts

  • The challenge of modern federal sentencing: "there are 15 distinct factors in 3553(a)"
  • "The Prison Industrial Complex: Mapping Private Sector Players"
  • "Leveraging Marijuana Reform to Enhance Expungement Practices"
  • Law enforcement reform group urges Congress to tackle sentencing reform along with prison reforms
  • A recent accounting of "Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System"
  • SCOTUS grants cert on yet another set of ACCA cases, this time to explore when burglary qualifies as "burglary"
  • SCOTUS to hear seemingly small sentencing case made slightly bigger by Government's advocate
  • "Addicted to Incarceration: A Federal Judge Reveals Shocking Truths About Federal Sentencing and Fleeting Hopes for Reform"
  • "Techno-Policing"
  • India government moving forward with the death penalty for child rape

Topical Archive

  • Advisory Sentencing Guidelines
  • Almendarez-Torres and the prior conviction exception
  • Apprendi / Blakely Retroactivity
  • Aspects and impact of Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act
  • Assessing Graham and its aftermath
  • Assessing Miller and its aftermath
  • Baze and Glossip lethal injection cases
  • Blakely Commentary and News
  • Blakely in Appellate Courts
  • Blakely in Legislatures
  • Blakely in Sentencing Courts
  • Blakely in the States
  • Blakely in the Supreme Court
  • Booker and Fanfan Commentary
  • Booker in district courts
  • Booker in the Circuits
  • Books
  • Campaign 2008 and sentencing issues
  • Campaign 2012 and sentencing issues
  • Campaign 2016 and sentencing issues
  • Celebrity sentencings
  • Claiborne and Rita reasonableness case
  • Clemency and Pardons
  • Collateral consequences
  • Criminal justice in the Obama Administration
  • Criminal justice in the Trump Administration
  • Criminal Sentences Alternatives
  • Current Affairs
  • Data on sentencing
  • Death Penalty Reforms
  • Detailed sentencing data
  • Drug Offense Sentencing
  • Elections and sentencing issues in political debates
  • Examples of "over-punishment"
  • Federal Sentencing Guidelines
  • Film
  • Fines, Restitution and Other Economic Sanctions
  • Food and Drink
  • Gall reasonableness case
  • Graham and Sullivan Eighth Amendment cases
  • Guest blogging by Professor Alex Kreit
  • Guest blogging by Professor Richard Frase
  • Guest blogging by Professor Stephanos Bibas
  • Guest blogging by Proskauer Rose
  • Gun policy and sentencing
  • Implementing retroactively new USSC crack guidelines
  • Irizarry SCOTUS case
  • Jackson and Miller Eighth Amendment cases
  • Kennedy child rape case
  • Kimbrough reasonableness case
  • Legislative Reactions to Booker and Blakely
  • Libby sentencing
  • Mandatory minimum sentencing statutes
  • Marijuana Legalization in the States
  • National and State Crime Data
  • New crack statute and the FSA's impact
  • New USSC crack guidelines and report
  • Offender Characteristics
  • Offense Characteristics
  • On blogging
  • Post-Libby commutation developments
  • Pot Prohibition Issues
  • Preparing for pot professing
  • Prisons and prisoners
  • Procedure and Proof at Sentencing
  • Purposes of Punishment and Sentencing
  • Race, Class, and Gender
  • Recap posts
  • Recommended reading
  • Recuenco and review of Blakely error
  • Reentry and community supervision
  • Religion
  • Rita reactions
  • Science
  • Scope of Imprisonment
  • Second Amendment issues
  • Sentences Reconsidered
  • Sentencing around the world
  • Severability of FSG
  • Sex Offender Sentencing
  • Sports
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  • Technocorrections
  • Television
  • Vagueness in Johnson and thereafter
  • Victims' Rights At Sentencing
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  • Who Sentences?
  • The Archives

Weekly Archives

  • April 22, 2018 - April 28, 2018
  • April 15, 2018 - April 21, 2018
  • April 8, 2018 - April 14, 2018
  • April 1, 2018 - April 7, 2018
  • March 25, 2018 - March 31, 2018
  • March 18, 2018 - March 24, 2018
  • March 11, 2018 - March 17, 2018
  • March 4, 2018 - March 10, 2018
  • February 25, 2018 - March 3, 2018
  • February 18, 2018 - February 24, 2018

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Links & Resources

  • US Department of Justice
  • US Sentencing Commission
  • Administrative Office of the US Courts, Department of Program Services, Defender Services Office
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  • The Sentencing Guidelines Resource Center
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  • The Sentencing Project
  • Families Against Mandatory Minimums
  • Justice Policy Institute
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  • Right on Crime
  • Vera Institute of Justice, Center on Sentencing and Corrections
  • Pew Public Safety Performance Project
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