... toward formalism and rationalization in American criminal law. In response to external pressure from scholars and legal advocates, governmental pressure to develop standardized models of sentencing led the United States Board of Parole to become the first agency to experiment with a guidelines model. The federal parole guidelines, initially developed in the late 1960s, allowed parole hearing examiners to set the length ... ...

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