Notes
The content is made available by the U.S. Government Publishing Office in accordance with Title 44 of the US Code.
Digital collection: Federal Depository Library Program Web Archive.
Description based on: archived web page captured Aug 14, 2014; title from title screen (viewed January 21, 2015).
Summary
The United States Sentencing Commission, an independent agency in the judicial branch of the Federal government that was organized in 1985, develops national sentencing policy and sentencing guidelines for the federal courts. The Commission's objective is "to ensure that similar offenders who commit similar offenses receive similar sentences." Its guidelines manuals, sourcebooks, case law compilations and analyses, sentencing statistics and data reports, and impact assessments inform members of all branches of Federal government, criminal justice practitioners, academicians, and the general public.