The Smart Sentencing
Presentations

    1) "Pursuing Evidence-based Harm Reduction in Sentencing" (University of Missouri School of Law, June 26, 2006)(RT 59:46) - a DVD video of a presentation with integrated slide show on principles of evidence-based sentencing, on the occasion of the introduction of Missouri's risk assessment-based sentencing tools.   Introduced by Missouri Chief Justice Michael Wolff, this presentation offers a brief history of the development of modern competing sentencing theories; the issues raised by pending efforts to revise model penal code sentencing provisions away from public safety; trends in modern corrections, penology, and criminology towards evidence based practices; analysis of the role and debate about risk assessment; and descriptions of current practical innovations supporting smart sentencing, including sentencing support tools.
    To obtain this presentation, e-mail your request and your snail mail address to Michael Marcus, and you will receive the DVD. 

    2) An Adobe PDF version of a recent presentation (May 2004) summarizing the arguments for smarter sentencing and briefly illustrating sentencing support tools and other smart sentencing innovations can be viewed on the web from here:

The on-line .pdf version

NOTE: adjust your Adobe Reader to display a full page, and use the Adobe Reader buttons to advance the slides. This on-line version has no sound track.  Return here with your browser's "back" button.

    3)  A downloadable .exe version from the Court Technology Conference 9 [CTC9] site - this was presented at the conference in September, 2005.   Download the .exe file (or the .shw if you happen to have Corel Presentations) to a location on your hard drive, and double-click the .exe to run.  It will run on any PC (Win 98SE or higher), but needs XGA resolution to display properly.  It has no audio, so it will make most sense if used in conjunction with the CTC9 paper submitted on the same topic.

    4) A self-presenting slide show demonstrating sentencing support software and its underlying rationale is available upon request.  This version is continually updated, and amounts to a narrated lecture that illustrates the tools as they are now in use in Multnomah County, Oregon. The presentation requires a Windows 98SE platform or higher (ME, 2000, XP, NT, etc.,  all work); XGA screen resolution (1024 x 768); and a sound card.  If you don't have a sound card, the CD also contains a text file script and a version without audio.
    The presentation is created in Corel Presentations, which does not require that any particular software be loaded on your computer.  Users can pause and navigate among the slides by right-clicking on the screen.
    To obtain this presentation, e-mail your request and your snail mail address to Michael Marcus, and you will receive a CD-ROM containing the presentation, the Multnomah Judges website, and the Sentencing Support user manual.

    Feel free to make any use of these presentations you wish, and to copy and distribute them as you feel appropriate -- but please repeat the attribution of the DVD to the University of Michigan School of Law "copied with permission."