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Booker and Beyond Analyzing Sentencing Reform and Exploring New Research Directions

January 2022

This webinar features a discussion of previously published research on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Booker decision - which effectively transformed the United States Sentencing Guidelines from a mandatory, to an advisory, system. The presentation will address selected research findings from the last 15 years. Individual participants will briefly review their previous research findings with particular attention paid to the analytic methods used.

Untested Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases

Date Published
March 17, 2016

Many jurisdictions across the country are looking at the issue of sexual assault evidence that has not been submitted to a crime lab for testing