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Cost As A Sentencing Factor: Missouri's Experiment, Chad Flanders
Cost As A Sentencing Factor: Missouri's Experiment, Chad Flanders
Missouri Law Review
This argument is avowedly theoretical and normative. That is, this Article tries to determine what judges ought to do, not what they in fact do. Judges and attorneys may argue cost at sentencing hearings, and many of them do. That does not mean that they should be debating cost or basing sentencing decisions on it. I also am not concerned about whether, pragmatically, letting judges figure cost into their decisions might be a good thing overall, because it might lead to lower sentences. I put these concerns to one side, important as they may be as a practical matter. Instead, …
Cost As A Sentencing Factor: A Response, Jeff Milyo
Cost As A Sentencing Factor: A Response, Jeff Milyo
Missouri Law Review
Professor Chad Flanders offers a normative theoretical critique of including costs of punishment in Sentence Advisory Reports (SARs) that the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission (MOSAC) produces. This approach provides a useful lens for understanding divergent opinions on the practice of including cost information in SARs and provides a consistent logical framework for understanding whether this practice squares with more fundamental principles of criminal punishment. In this Response, I complement the normative analysis in the main Article with several observations from a different analytical perspective. As an empirical social scientist, my analytical approach is based on positive analysis. I am less …