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Evaluating the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines

This paper traces the development and implementation of the US Federal Sentencing Guidelines and describes a number of recent decisions relating to the use of the guidelines in the United States. Comparisons are drawn with equivalent principles and practices in the United Kingdom. It is argued that any move towards the more rigid control of sentencing discretion in the United Kingdom may increase the potential for abuse of due process revealed by some recent guideline cases in the United States.