Comments on Preliminary Draft No. 6, Model Penal Code, Sentencing, submitted to ALI April 19, 2008.* 

Comments for the UK Parliamentary Justice Committee, submitted to the UK Parliamentary Justice Committee on April 10,  2008.*  

Limiting Retributivism: Revisions to Model Penal Code Sentencing Provisions, 29 Whittier Law Review 295 (2007)* 

Responding to the Model Penal Code Sentencing Revisions: Tips for Early Adopters and Power Users, 17 S Cal Interdiscipl L J 68 (2007) (includes A Harm-Reduction Sentencing Code)* 

Comments on Preliminary Draft No. 5, Model Penal Code, Sentencing, submitted to ALI August 31, 2007. * 

Post-Booker Sentencing Issues for a Post-Booker Court, 18 Federal Sentencing Reporter,227 (2006) [University of California Press for Vera Institute of Justice] * 

Comments on Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Council Draft No. 1,  submitted for consideration by the American Law Institute Council Oct 19-20, 2006. * 

Model Penal Code Sentencing Revisions: ALI Faces Critical Issues, an article distributed at the 2006American Law Institute Annual Meeting. * 

Focusing Sentencing on Public Safety, and the Role of Sentencing Commissions,  a presentation at the 2006 Conference of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions* 

Smart Sentencing: Public Safety, Public Trust and Confidence Through Evidence-Based Dispositions, a piece on the National Center for State Courts "Future Trends in State Courts" site, arguing that public trust and confidence require accountability for best efforts at smart sentencing, including recidivism-linked performance measures. * 

Meaningful Performance Measures and Judicial Independence, an article arguing that sentencing ought to be measured largely by its success in reducing recidivism and that legitimate notions of "judicial independence" are not thereby threatened. * 

Sentencing Support Tools: Technology as Strategy, A paper presented at the CTC9 conference sponsored by the National Center for State Courts in September, 2005.

Blakely, Booker, and the Future of Sentencing, 17 Federal Sentencing Reporter, 243 (2005) [University of California Press for Vera Institute of Justice]

Comments on Preliminary Draft No. 4, Model Penal Code: SentencingPresented at the Sept. 11, 2005, meeting of the American Law Institute Members Consultative Group on the Model Penal Code Revision. * 

Public Comment on Proposed Priorities to U.S. Sentencing Commission on post-Booker federal guidelines priorities (July 25, 2005) * 

Justitia's Bandage: Blind Sentencing, An article published in the first issue of the International Journal of Punishment and Sentencing (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005).* 

What Works?  Who Cares? Strategies for making what works matter, A paper delivered at the October, 2004, Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN) conference * 

• Smarter Sentencing: On the Need to Consider Crime Reduction as a Goal40:3-4 Court Review 16 (Winter 2004) [journal of the American Judges Association] * 
• Sentencing Support Tools and Probation in Multnomah County Executive Exchange (Spring 2004) [national journal of probation executives]* 
• Sentencing in the Temple of Denunciation: Criminal Justice's Weakest Link,1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 671 (2004) Available on Lexis at 1 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 671 * 
• Testimony to Governor's Public Safety Review Steering Committee (May 4, 2004) * 
• Comments on the Model Penal Code: Sentencing Preliminary Draft No. 1, 30 American Journal of Criminal Law 135 (2003) [University of Texas Law School], Available on WestLaw at 30 AMJCRL 135.
• Testimony on SB 267(Or. Interim Judiciary Committee, Feb 3-4, 2004) * 
• Archaic Sentencing Liturgy Sacrifices Public Safety: What's Wrong and How We Can Fix It 

16 Federal Sentencing Reporter 76 (2003) [University of California Press for Vera Institute of Justice] Available on WestLaw at 2003 WL 23269275.
• Sentence for Safety, Not for Show Op-ed "In Response" on purposes of sentencing, TheOregonian, Oct 1, 2003_ 
• Why Sentencing Needs Profound Change; How Technology Can Help  An article presented at the Academy of Justice Sciences Conference, Boston, March 4-8, 2003
• Sentencing Support Technology and Accountability for Public Safety Outcomes  A paper presented June 27-29, 2002, at the International Conference on Sentencing and Society, Strathclyde University, UK, Glasgow. * 
• Thoughts on Strathclyde  A paper about the conference, the Halliday Report, the Report of the [UK] Sentencing Advisory Panel, judicial independence, criminology, academia,xandxpublic safety * 
• Sentencing Support Technology in Oregon A paper presented at the CTC7 conference sponsored by the National Center for State Courts in August, 2001; *  for a copy of the electronic presentation, click : 
• Courtroom Technology: Sentencing Support Technology The Judges Journal, Winter, 2002 [ABA Judicial Division]
• Speech to Oregon Legislature's Interim Judiciary Committee, U. of Or. School of Law, 9/29/2000 Streaming Audio Version (audio; toggle out of "compact mode," if necessary, then go to clip 3 of 3)
• We Can Do Better at Fighting Crime - an overview  An article describing what's wrong with criminal justice, what purposes compete for our attention, and how we should fix what doesn't work: preventing recidivism
• Presentation to Pendleton Conference of Western State Wardens  A presentation to a Conference of Western State Wardens in Pendleton, Oregon on the history of prisons, Jeremy Bentham and hopes for brining criminal justice into the 20th century before it was over
• Technology is Coming to Sentencing Hearings An article published in the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association's "Oregon Defense Attorney," February, 1999
• Technology Confronts the Revolving Door  An article published in The Verdict, April 2000 (Or. Dist. Attys. Assn.)
• Paying Attention to What Works Published in the August/September, 1999, issue of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin