Fifty years of American sentencing reform: Nine lessons

Michael Tonry

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCrime and Justice
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Pages1-34
Number of pages34
Edition1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameCrime and Justice
Number1
Volume48
ISSN (Print)0192-3234
ISSN (Electronic)2153-0416

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Unusually effective individuals were also behind the successful parole guidelines systems. The federal prototype resulted in part from a decade’s work by Don M. Gottfredson and Leslie T. Wilkins, formerly head of corrections research in the UK Home Office, and in part from the support of Maurice Sigler, chair of the Federal Parole Board. The key person in developing Oregon’s successful parole guidelines was Parole Board chair Ira Blalock. In Minnesota, it was the parole board’s chief executive, Dale Parent. Parole guidelines, however, were easier. All of these people worked at a time when indeterminate sentencing was taken

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