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The Federal Sentencing Reporter (FSR) is the only American publication devoted solely to sentencing issues and practices in federal and state court systems. The journal was founded by Vera in 1988 to help chronicle and analyze complex and rapid changes in the world of sentencing and their impact on broader criminal justice issues.
The need for a sentencing publication became evident at the time of the promulgation of sentencing guidelines by the United States Sentencing Commission in 1987. Scores of federal judges ruled the new guidelines unconstitutional under a range of legal theories and threw the guidelines’ validity and future into question. The Supreme Court eventually upheld the statute that helped create the federal sentencing guidelines. Amidst all the confusion and uncertainty, legal systems needed someone to report and keep track of development, and Vera created FSR to do this critical task.
Since then, FSR has evolved from a reporter of sentencing decisions to a journal dedicated to critically reviewing sentencing practices and related legal issues. Each issue covers a current, urgent sentencing concern in depth. To advance provocative and thoughtful discussion, issues regularly include articles by judges, practitioners, and academics working in the United States and in other countries. FSR also reprints primary documents and decisions that may be of special interests to those working on state and federal sentencing issues.
The University of California Press at Berkeley publishes five issues of FSR annually. The journal is edited by a team of law professors led by Professor Douglas Berman, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. For publication information, including subscribing, ordering reprints, and submitting articles, visit the FSR page on the University of California Press’s website.
For hour-by-hour coverage and analysis of developing sentencing news, visit Professor Berman’s blog at sentencing.typepad.com/.
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