Reform effects: a study of the impact of case law and legislation on the sentencing of offenders in U.S. federal courts.

Sentencing reform has guided criminal justice processing in federal courts since the passage of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (hereafter, SRA 1984). Despite changes in case law and legislation, the academic and political community has been seeking to understand the persistence of unwarranted dis...

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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20200808