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Michael O’Hear (2003)
National Uniformity/Local Uniformity: Reconsidering the Use of Departures to Reduce Federal-State Sentencing DisparitiesIowa Law Review
D. Berman (2002)
The Start of the Next Revolution?: Recent State Reforms in the Sentencing of Drug OffendersFederal Sentencing Reporter, 14
William Stuntz (2001)
The Pathological Politics of Criminal LawMichigan Law Review, 100
G U E S T E D I T O R ' S O B S E R VAT I O N S MICHAEL M. O'HEAR Assistant Professor, Marquette University Law School With this Issue, the Fede ral Sentencing Reporter concludes its two-issue survey of recent sentencing reform developments at the state level. The previous Issue focused on drug reforms, particularly a series of ballot initiatives in four states mandating treatment in lieu of incarceration for lowlevel drug offenders.1 The present Issue places those developments in a broader context. Within the past two years, more than a dozen states have adopted important sentencing reforms. Surprisingly, given the general trajectory of sentencing law over the past three decades, most of the current state-level reforms are calculated to reduce sentence lengths (albeit sometimes rather obliquely). Perhaps most notably, legislatures have scaled back mandatory minimums in Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, and North Dakota. Thus, one can now ask with a straight face the question posed by Marc Mauer in this Issue: ÒIs the get-tough era in sentencing coming to a close?Ó Recent state reforms may indeed suggest a fundamental change in sentencing politics. Not coincidentally, however, they have occurred during a period
Federal Sentencing Reporter – University of California Press
Published: Oct 1, 2002
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