1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... sentencing systems, social and legal scholars pressed for legislation that would replace indeterminate sentencing with a system that offered greater predictability in determining proper sentence dispositions and lengths of imprisonment (Frankel, 1973; von Hirsch, 1976; Kennedy 1979). Sentencing reformers advocated for structured systems that limited judicial discretion with the expectation that these would create ... in the federal courts. The Sentencing Reform Act created the United States Sentencing Commission, abolished federal parole, and narrowed judicial discretion at sentencing t...
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