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Booker and Beyond Analyzing Sentencing Reform and Exploring New Research Directions

January 2022

This webinar features a discussion of previously published research on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Booker decision - which effectively transformed the United States Sentencing Guidelines from a mandatory, to an advisory, system. The presentation will address selected research findings from the last 15 years. Individual participants will briefly review their previous research findings with particular attention paid to the analytic methods used.

Updating the Deterrence Doctrine

NCJ Number
104954
Journal
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Date Published
1986
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)

Epidemiology of Crime Guns: Summary

NCJ Number
254131
Date Published
September 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Description