Impact of Sentencing Guidelines on the Use of Incarceration in Federal Criminal Courts in the United States, 1984-1990
The primary purpose of this data collection was to examine
 the impact of the implementation of sentencing guidelines on the rate
 of incarcerative and nonincarcerative sentences imposed and on the
 average length of expected time to be served in incarceration for all
 offenses as well as for select groups of …