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I am so very pleased to report on that the latest issue of the  Federal Sentencing Reporter is now available online here.  This issue is titled "Making Sense of Sentencing Data" and it has a number of terrific articles from an array of authors examining sentencing data issues from a number of perspectives.  I highly encourage everyone to check out the full issue, and here is a list of the original articles in this FSR issue: Deciphering Data by Steven L. Chanenson & Douglas A. Berman Mapping The Modern Sentencing Data Landscape From the Bird’s Eye: The Sixth Circuit’s Efforts to Breat...

"The Stress of Injustice: Public Defenders and the Frontline of American Inequality" The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper now available via SSRN and authored by Valerio Baćak, Sarah Lageson and Kathleen Powell.  Here is its abstract: Fairness and due process in the criminal justice system are all but unattainable without effective legal representation of indigent defendants, yet we know little about attorneys who do this critical work — public defenders.  Using semi-structured interviews, this study investigated occupational stress in a sample of 87 public defend...