Sentencing Guidelines 1995-96 Annual Report List of Tables and Figures

Part I. Introduction

Section 2. Introductory Statistics

Table 1 - Scoresheets Received by Month of Sentence

Figure 1 - Scoresheets Received: 1994 vs. 1995 Version

Table 2 - Scoresheets Received by Judicial Circuit

Table 3 - Scoresheets Received by Judicial Circuit/County

Figure 2 - Sentencing Guidelines Policy in Effect by Fiscal Year, FY 1995-96 Supervision and Prison Admissions

Table 4 - Gender by Judicial Circuit

Table 5 - Race by Judicial Circuit

Table 6 - Age at Sentencing

Figure 3 - Age at Sentencing Distribution

Part II. Impact

Section 1. Use of Incarcerative Sanctions

Figure 1 - Distribution of Prison Admissions by Offense Group, Fiscal Year and Guidelines Policy

Table 1 - Changes in Prison Admission Distributions by Offense Type for Sentencing Guidelines Policy in Effect

Figure 2 - Distribution of Supervision Admissions by Offense Group, Fiscal Year, and Guidelines Policy

Table 2 - Changes in Community Supervision Admission Distributions by Offense Type for Sentencing Guidelines Policy in Effect

Table 3 - Current Prison Admissions for Non-Violent Offense Groups by Prior Prison Record and Guidelines Policy, Third Degree Felony Offenses Only

Section 2. Sentencing Neutrality

Table 1 - Prison Versus Non-Prison Sentence for Blacks and Whites

Table 2 - Average Prison Sentence Length in Years by Race

Table 3 - White and Black Offenders Sentencing Factors

Table 4 - Effect of Factors on In/Out Prison Decision

Table 5 - Effect of Factors on Prison Sentence Length

Section 3. Penalties and Primary Offense Severity

Table 1 - Sanction Imposed by Sentencing Guidelines Level

Table 2 - Sanction Imposed by Offense Group

Figure 1 - Offense Distribution by Sanction Imposed

Table 3 - Average Total Sentence Points by Sentencing Guidelines Level

Table 4- Average Total Sentence Points by Offense Group and Offense Type

Table 5 - State Prison Sentence Length by Sentencing Guidelines Level

Table 6 - Source of Sentence Points by Sanction Imposed

Table 7 - Source of Sentence Points by Recommended Sanction Category

Figure 2 - Source of Points for Offenders Scoring in Recommended State Prison Sanction Category

Table 8 - Average Sentence Points for Offenders Receiving Points From Guidelines Component

Table 9 - Source of Points by Offense Type

Figure 3 - Source of Total Points Within Offense Groups

Table 10 - Sentencing Guidelines Level by Offense Group

Table 11 - Sentencing Guidelines Level by Offense Type

Table 12 - Sanction Imposed by Offense Type

Table 13 - Prison Sentence Length by Offense Type

Table 14 - Length of Prison Sentence by Offense Group

Table 15 - Average Community Sentence Length in Months by Offense Type

Table 16 - Average Community Sentence Imposed in Months

Table 17 - Number of Additional Offenses

Section 4. Sentence Severity and Prior Record

Table 1 - Number of Prior Offenses

Table 2 - Prior Felony Record and Sanction Imposed

Table 3 - Average State Prison Sentence Length in Months by Prior Felony Record and Sentencing Guidelines Level

Section 5. Length of Time Served

Figure 1 (TBA) - Average Percentage of Sentence Served Over Eight Years

Table 1 - Comparison of State Prison Sentence Length to Estimated Number of Years Served for Selected Offenses, Pre-1994 vs. 1994-95 Sentencing Guidelines Policy

Section 6. Departures from Recommended Sentences

Table 1 - Mitigation Rates Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended State Prison Sanction Category

Figure 1 - Mitigation Rates Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended State Prison Sanction Category

Figure 2 - Mitigation Rates by Offense Type Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended State Prison Sanction Category

Table 2 - Mitigation Rates Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended State Prison Sanction Category

Table 3 - Mitigated Sanction and Sentence Length Rates by Judicial Circuit

Table 4 - Mitigated Sanction Rates by Judicial Circuit

Table 5 - Aggravation Rates Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended Non-State Prison Sanction Category

Figure 3 - Aggravation Rates Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended Non-State Prison Sanction Category

Table 6 - Aggravation Rates by Offense Type Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended Non-State Prison Sanction Category

Figure 4 - Aggravation Rates by Offense Type Among Offenders Scoring in Recommended Non-State Prison Sanction Category

Table 7 - Aggravation Rates by Judicial Circuit

Table 8 - Reason for Departure Among Mitigated Cases by Judicial Circuit

Table 9 - Reason for Departure Among Aggravated Cases by Judicial Circuit

Part III. Sentencing Guidelines Practice

Section 1. Recommended Sanction and Sanction Imposed

Figure 1 - Distribution of Sanction Imposed

Table 1 - Sanction Imposed by Judicial Circuit

Table 2 - Recommended Sanction Category

Figure 2 - Recommended Sanction Category Distribution

Table 3 - Recommended Sanction Category by Sanction Imposed

Table 4 - Average Total Sentence Points by Sanction Imposed

Figure 3 - Average Total Sentence Points by Sanction Imposed

Figure 4 - Offense Distribution for Offenders in Recommended State Prison Sanction Category

Table 5 - Sanction Imposed by Offense Type Among Offenders in Recommended State Prison Sanction Category

Table 6 - Sanction Imposed by Offense Group

Figure 5 - Offense Distribution by Sanction Imposed

Table 7 - Sanction Imposed by Gender

Table 8 - Recommended Sanction Category by Gender

Table 9 - Sanction Imposed by Race

Table 10 - Recommended Sanction Category by Race

Table 11 - Sanction Imposed by Age at Sentencing

Table 12 - Recommended Sanction Category by Age at Sentencing

Section 2. Primary Offense Severity Levels

Figure 1 - Sentencing Guidelines Level Distribution

Table 1 - Gender by Sentencing Guidelines Level

Figure 2 - Sentencing Guidelines Level by Gender

Table 2 - Race by Sentencing Guidelines Level

Figure 3 - Sentencing Guidelines Level by Race

Table 3 - Sentencing Guidelines Level by Age at Sentencing

Figure 4 - Sentencing Guidelines Level, Offenders Under 24

Table 4 - Sentencing Guidelines Level by Judicial Circuit

Section 3. Length of Sentence

Table 1 Prison Sentence Length by Age at Sentencing

Table 2 Prison Sentence Length by Gender

Table 3 Prison Sentence Length by Race

Table 4 Length of Prison Sentence by Judicial Circuit

Table 5 Age by Average Sentence Length in Months

Table 6 Gender by Average Sentence Length in Months

Table 7 Race by Average Sentence Length in Months