Strategic Judging Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence

We present a positive political theory of criminal sentencing and test it using data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, judges can use “offense-level adjustments” (fact-based decision making) to lengthen or shorten the Guidelines' presumptive sentences. J...

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