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 Other texts offer only partial coverage or out-of-date examples.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 the U.S. Supreme Court To The state court level, with close consideration of the role of legislatures and sentencing commissions. The only current, full-course text on sentencing, this new title offers: an 'intuitive', conceptually-based organization that looks at the essential substantative components and procedural steps following the sequence of decisions that typically occurs in every criminal sentencing examples covering three distinct areas of sentencing, with chapter materials based on guideline-determinate, indeterminate, and capital sentencing materials from a range of institutions, including decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, state high courts, federal appellate courts, and some foreign jurisdictions - along with statutes and guideline provisions, and reports from various sentencing commissions and agencies in-text notes on sentencing policies that explain common practices in U.S. jurisdictions, then ask students to compare different institutional practices and consider the relationship between sentencing rules, politics, And The broader aims of criminal justice

• 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 It is slightly out of date and needs to be updated, but that's to be expected since it was published a few years ago.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.