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Plenary Session I: The State of Sentencing Research
Looking Back at Three Decades of Sentencing Reform
Cassia Spohn, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs,
Arizona State University
Risk Assessment and Crime Prevention in Structured Sentencing
Alfred Blumstein, Professor, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon
University
The Future of Sentencing Theory and Research
Charles Wellford, Professor of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, University of Maryland;
Vice-chair, Maryland State
Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy
Plenary Session II: The Consequences of Escalating Incarceration Rates
Economic Impacts of Incarceration
Anne Piehl, Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Program
in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Remembering, Hopefully Not Repeating, Past Errors in Sentencing
Policy
Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
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Panel Session: Risk/Needs Assessment
How Much Risk Assessment Do We Need and For What
Purposes?
James Austin, President, JFA Institute
A Question of Evidence: Risk Assessments Models Used in the
Justice System
Related Report:
NCCD Special Report
Christopher Baird, Executive Vice President, National Council on
Crime and Delinquency
Reassessing Risk Assessment: Taking Risk Suppression
Seriously
Avi Bhati, Senior Research Associate, Justice Policy Center, The
Urban Institute
Panel Session:
Influence of Politics and Media on Criminal Penalty
Development
Gabriel Sayegh, Director, State Organizing and Policy
Project, Drug Policy Alliance
The Impact of the Cheshire, Connecticut Home Invasion Case
Tom Ullmann, Public Defender, State of Connecticut; Member,
Connecticut Sentencing Task Force
Panel Session:
An International Perspective on Sentencing
Sentencing Guidelines in England and Wales: Bringing
Consistency to Sentencing
Related Material:
McCormac NASC 2009 Supplemental Material
Kevin McCormac, Head of Secretariat, Sentencing
Guidelines Council for England and Wales
The Basic Features of the Korean Sentencing Guidelines
Related Material:
Park NASC 2009 Supplemental Material
Hyungkwan Park, Senior Public Prosecutor and Professor,
Legal Research and Training Institute and
Special Advisor to the
Korean Sentencing Commission
Reform of
Chinese Sentencing: Snapshots from the PRC
Timothy Webster, Fellow, China Law Center, Yale Law School
Panel Session: Sentencing Since Booker
Data on Cases Sentenced After Decisions in Booker,
Gall, and Kimbrough
Kathleen Grilli, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Sentencing
Commission
Panel Session:
Evolving Roles of Sentencing Commissions
Fiscal Impact Analysis in Virginia
Meredith Farrar-Owens, Deputy Director, Virginia
Criminal Sentencing Commission
The Evolution of the Kansas Sentencing Commission
Helen Pedigo, Executive Director, Kansas Sentencing Commission
Panel Session:
The Role of Victims in Sentencing Policy
Victims' Interest in Sentencing in Courthouses and in
Public Policy Arenas
Related Article:
Federal
Sentencing Reporter 2006 article
Russell Butler, Director, Maryland Crime Victims
Resource Center
Victim Impact Statements and Sentencing: Findings from
Empirical Research
Robert Davis, Senior Research Analyst, RAND
Panel Session: Shrinking Budgets While Meeting Courts and Corrections
Needs
The Costs & Benefits of Sentencing: How to Use Economic
Analysis In a Time of Fiscal Restraint
Mark Cohen, Professor of Management and Law,
Vanderbilt University
Delaware's Prisoner Early Release Process, 2002 to 2005
Jack O'Connell, Jr., Director, Delaware Statistical Analysis
Center
Panel Session: Release Decisions
Release Decisions, Reentry, and Effective Supervision
Jesse Janetta, Research Associate, The Urban Institute
Release Decisions in Utah
Jacey Skinner, Director, Utah Sentencing Commission
Panel Session: The Interdependence of Jail and Prison Populations and
Policies
Interdependence of Jails and Prisons in Alabama - Or the
Hundred Years' War Revisited
Richard Allen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of
Corrections
Funding Jails and Balancing Prison and Jail Populations in Virginia
Barry Green, Deputy Secretary of Public Safety, Commonwealth of
Virginia
Montgomery
County's Work Release and Reentry Services for Soon-To-Be Released
Incarcerated Individuals
Stefan LoBuglio, Chief, Pre-Release and Reentry Services
Division, Montgomery County (MD) Department of
Correction and Rehabilitation
Round Table Discussion:
Rebuilding Justice in Eastern Europe
Law Reform in Post Conflict and Post Revolutionary
Countries
Richard Gebelein, Chief Deputy Attorney General,
Delaware Department of Justice
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