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A neglected topic subjected to incisive scrutiny,
This review is from: Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts (Paperback)
Kate Stith's and Jose Cabrane's Fear of Judging addresses an undertreated topic regarding how we the public set the standard for what is appropriate punishment for criminal offenders. The book examines the bipartisan politics that led to the establishment of the Sentencing Commission and the Commission's overreaching zeal to raise criminal incarceration penalties under the unachievable guise of making punishment equal to all criminals with matching degrees of culpability. The book demonstrates how parity of sentencing remains as elusive as ever while the net effect of the Sentencing Commission guidelines has been to merely augment the amount of time criminals serve and to hinder involved judges from making responsible additions or subtractions in sentencing decisions that would be in the best interests of all. Sentencing commissions guidelines attempt to reduce the judicial process to mathematical abstractions and yet the abstractions remain far too vague and abstruse to allow for any degree of equitable judgment. The book reduces the Sentencing Commission's pronouncements as severely interfering with the process of the fair establishment of criminal sentences.
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Fear of Judging: Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Courts by Kate Stith (Paperback - October 1, 1998)
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