Report on a survey that the Center undertook at the request of the Committee on Criminal Law of the Judicial Conference of the United States of all district and circuit judges and chief probation officers regarding their experiences with and views of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
Using a growing body of data and scholarly research, this report examines whether federal mandatory minimum sentencing statutes have been successful in achieving the purposes of punishment.
A report that examines the sentences imposed on federal offenders from 1984 through the first six months of 1990, a time during which the federal Sentencing Guidelines were promulgated and numerous mandatory minimum sentencing statutes were enacted.