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Sentencing Trends For Economic Crime, Robert Sanger
Sentencing Trends For Economic Crime, Robert Sanger
Robert M. Sanger
Economic crime is something that intersects with the work of many practitioners, whether corporate counsel, business lawyers, civil litigators, estate planners, or family lawyers. As many know, the United States Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”) have treated economic crimes with stiff guideline sentences. When the amount of intended loss rises, the sentences accelerate to the level of being extremely harsh. The United States Sentencing Commission has just published the results of their study of sentencing for economic crimes as applied in practice.The Guidelines have been declared to be advisory by the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. …
Death Penalty In America -- Recent Pew Study, Robert Sanger
Death Penalty In America -- Recent Pew Study, Robert Sanger
Robert M. Sanger
The Pew Research Center published the results of its 2013 survey in a release dated February 12, 2014. That study has implications for the continuation of the death penalty in America and California, in particular. It also contains some striking results with regard to the position taken by the game theory strategists who argue against discussing the moral issues.
Criminal Justice And The Public Imagination, Erik Luna
Criminal Justice And The Public Imagination, Erik Luna
Erik Luna
As this symposium demonstrates, criminology has much to offer criminal law and procedure. But there are limits to this endeavor, such as when public policy is distorted by powerful emotions that ignore the lessons of legal doctrine and social science. This article presents one possible response in such circumstances: expanding the interdisciplinary relationship to include literary and cultural materials usually associated with the humanities. These works can inspire the public imagination in ways that law and criminology cannot, at times offering an alternative narrative to counter emotion-driven claims of necessity, for instance, and raising the exact type of questions that …