Demographic Differences in Federal Sentencing

By The United States Sentencing Commission

Consistent with best practices, the Commission re-examined and refined the analytical methods used in previous reports to better understand sentencing disparity in the federal courts. Using new analytical techniques and newly available data, this report examines federal sentencing practices in the five fiscal years after the 2017 report to determine if the differences observed in the Commission’s prior reports continued to persist.  

Washington, DC: USSC,  2023. 48p.