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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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My Other Blogs
- Marijuana Law, Policy and Reform
- Criminal Law Course @ Moritz College of Law
- Law School Innovation
- Death Penalty Course @ Moritz College of Law
- Legislation Course @ Moritz College of Law
- Sentencing Courses @ Moritz College of Law
- The Golf Blog
My Books & Journals
- Sentencing Law & Policy (4th ed. Wolters Kluwer 2018)
- Federal Sentencing Reporter
- Past FSR Articles
- 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
- State Sentencing Guidelines
- Technocorrections
- Television
- Vagueness in Johnson and thereafter
- Victims' Rights At Sentencing
- Web/Tech
- Weblogs
- White-collar sentencing
- 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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