Fifteen Years of Guidelines Sentencing

November 2004

Table of Contents (.PDF)

Executive Summary and Preface (.PDF)

Chapters

Chapter One: Introduction to the Sentencing Reform Act (.PDF)

Chapter Two: Impact of the Sentencing Guidelines on the Certainty and Severity of Punishment (.PDF)

Chapter Three: Presentencing, Inter-judge, and Regional Disparity (.PDF)

Chapter Four: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities In Federal Sentencing Today (.PDF)

Chapter Five: Summary and Conclusions (.PDF)

Appendices

Appendix A: Bibliography (.PDF)

Appendix B: Congressional Directives to the Commission (.PDF)

Appendix C: Survey of Article III Judges on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (.HTM)

Appendix D: Technical Appendix (.PDF)

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