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Federal Sentencing Guidelines

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An End To Arbitrary And Capricious Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Henry D. Stegner Apr 2018

An End To Arbitrary And Capricious Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Henry D. Stegner

Idaho Law Review

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A (Nude) Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words — But How Many Dollars?: Using Copyright As A Metric For Harm In ‘Revenge Porn’ Cases, J. Remy Green Jan 2018

A (Nude) Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words — But How Many Dollars?: Using Copyright As A Metric For Harm In ‘Revenge Porn’ Cases, J. Remy Green

Faculty Scholarship

So-called “Revenge Porn” — pornography published without the subject’s permission — is a growing issue. While much discussion exists about how best to outlaw the practice, less has been said about precisely how to measure the harm done. This paper is grounded in an in-depth analysis of the particular way that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines prioritize financial harms and non-financial harms, specifically looking at how many dollars of harm it takes to buy each additional sentencing point. I graph the enforcement priorities for financial and non-financial harm using the numbers federal agencies use for the value of a statistical life. …