The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Implications for Criminal Justice

by Dean John Champion

A distinguished group of noted criminal justice specialists here examines the impact of the new U.S. sentencing guidelines, imposed in 1987, on law enforcement, the prosecution and courts, and corrections. Although these guidelines were created with the expressed purpose of increasing judicial fairness and reducing prison overcrowding, the contributors argue that their long range effects will be to aggravate present overcrowding problems to intolerably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275933245
• ISBN13: 9780275933241
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"