The Law and Policy of Sentencing

Lynn S. Branham, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

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Teacher's Manual

The eleventh edition of this leading casebook on sentencing law and policy profiles many key developments since publication of the book’s last edition and expands its coverage of other subjects. The updates and revisions in the book include, among others:

• Recommendations, including those of the American Bar Association’s Plea Bargain Task Force, to revamp plea-bargaining policies and practices
• State ethics opinions finding it unethical for defense attorneys and prosecutors to negotiate plea agreements containing certain appellate waivers
• The inclusion of pertinent new Supreme Court cases and statutes, McCleskey v. Kemp (previously discussed in the notes) as a principal case, and updated statistics
• An article critiquing the current role of “prior record enhancements” (criminal history) when calculating a sentence
• The stance of the Model Penal Code: Sentencing on a range of sentencing-related issues
• Proposed changes in the law and its implementation to enhance probation’s capacity to meet sentencing goals
• State supreme court cases holding their state’s constitution provides more expansive rights at sentencing than the United States Constitution
• Augmented coverage of cases and policy developments bearing on the sentencing and release of people convicted of crimes committed when a juvenile or “emerging adult”
• An article describing the functioning of a federal reentry court
• The Model Penal Code: Sentencing’s criticisms of parole systems and sentencing experts’ recommendations to overhaul those systems if retained

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