Since 1980, 22 state and federal jurisdictions have adopted sentencing guidelines.
Nineteen still have them. No two systems are alike. Experience suggests that any well …

The allegation that criminal justice systems (and that of the United States in particular) have
become guilty of overcriminalization is widely accepted by academics and practitioners on …

A new conception of justice in punishment is needed that is premised on respect for
offenders' human dignity. It needs to acknowledge retributive and utilitarian values and …

Most research in sentencing discrimination in the United Kingdom has relied on aggregate
analyses comparing disparities by ethnic group. These studies fail to consider differences in …

Sentenced offenders who re-offend prior to serving their previously imposed sentence
(multiple conviction offenders) are situated between multiple and repeat offenders. This …

Objectives The decision to impose consecutive incarceration sentences, rather than
concurrent, is an important discretionary decision that is often not structured by guidelines …

The 'totality principle'in law aims to show mercy to offenders in multiple-offence (MO) cases
and retain ordinal proportionality in punishing those who commit different categories of …

Sentencing guidelines were an exclusively American enterprise until recently. Since 2004,
however, other countries have joined in. Contrasting approaches are exemplified by …

Abstract Former socialist European countries (FSECs) have largely been overlooked in the
scholarly debate on sentencing disparities and structuring sentencing discretion. The article …

Most people have the intuition that good people deserve good things and bad people
deserve bad things. Retributivists take this intuition quite seriously. They argue that criminal …