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The Federal Sentencing Reporter is the only American publication dedicated solely to the field of criminal sentencing. The journal features articles, cases, and primary materials written by judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys, probation officers, scholars, and members of sentencing commissions.
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FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER
Issue: Vol. 20, No. 5
American Criminal Justice Policy in a “Change” Election
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FEATURED ARTICLE:
Editor’s Observations–The Sounds of Silence: American Criminal Justice Policy in Election Year 2008
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One of the striking features of the 2008 election cycle has been the absence of crime as a national political issue. Nobody has declared metaphorical war on any type of crime, run an ad about the depredations of a parolee, or even promised 100,000 cops. It may simply be that for a country embroiled in two nonmetaphorical foreign wars and deeply nervous about the state of the economy, crime is a second-order concern. It could be that the big drop in crime of all types throughout the 1990s has made the issue seem less pressing. Whatever the explanation, things are awfully quiet out there. |
This Issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter was conceived as a vehicle for stirring things up a bit. We asked an array of very smart folks from widely differing political and institutional perspectives to tell us what criminal justice issues America should be thinking about and what should be done about those issues. The twenty-three responses in these pages are not only fascinating individually, but collectively they may suggest one hopeful explanation of the near invisibility of crime as a hot-button issue in this political season... Read More
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