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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.

ALASKA'S BAN ON PLEA BARGAINING

NCJ Number
59919
Journal
Law & Society Review
Date Published
1979
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation, Legislation/Policy Analysis

Changing Plea Bargaining Debate

NCJ Number
79821
Journal
California Law Review
Date Published
1981
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)