Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines

by Nora V. Demleitner, Marc L. Miller, Douglas A. Berman

Four leading sentencing scholars have produced the first and only text with enough up-to-date material to support a full course or seminar on sentencing. Other texts offer only partial coverage or out-of-date examples. The chapters in Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines present examples from three distinct types of sentencing guideline-determinate, and capital. The materials draw on the full spectrum of legal institutions, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735536589
• ISBN13: 9780735536586
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Length: 912 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

So far, so good...

I'm only about four or five chapters in, but the book includes a comprehensive review of the history of sentencing. The book also clearly defines the terms that many other books simply use without fully explaining. It is slightly out of date and needs to be updated, but that's to be expected since it was published a few years ago. I'd expect a new version sometime soon, as the law is really evolving right now.