Document Type
Article
Publication Title
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Abstract
The aspiration for consistency in criminal sentencing decisions is nearly universal. But the complexities of criminal justice administration are likely to defeat most current efforts to see this aspiration fulfilled. This Article explores the principal difficulties and develops a proposal that can bring the goal within reach. My purpose is to suggest the range of procedures necessary to ensure the effectiveness of a concrete reform proposal and then to consider whether a sentencing system so elaborated would indeed serve the values that ordinarily make consistency and formal procedural fairness worthy of pursuit.
First Page
733
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2307/3311726
Volume
128
Publication Date
1980
Recommended Citation
Stephen J. Schulhofer,
Due Process of Sentencing,
128
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
733
(1980).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/1017
