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Reforming Federal Sentencing: A Call For Equality-Infused Menschlichkeit, Nora V. Demleitner
Reforming Federal Sentencing: A Call For Equality-Infused Menschlichkeit, Nora V. Demleitner
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
This piece, which serves as an Introduction to the Symposium Issue of the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, addresses both questions of pedagogy and federal sentencing. It starts by highlighting the value of a symposium on federal sentencing as a teaching, research, and advocacy tool before it turns to sentencing reform specifically.
Federal sentencing remains a highly contested area because it raises stark questions of equality and equitable treatment. Sentencing has long been unfair to minority defendants, African-Americans in particular, though the guidelines have in part mitigated racial disparities. Still the injustices perpetuated through …