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3 Offender Rehab. 3 (1978-1979)

handle is hein.journals/wjor3 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL ON SENTENCING Among the more remarkable qualities of the Amer- ican experience are periodic, unpredictable bursts of national unity. We have grown familiar with backbiting, dissent, discontent, and such specific foci of disunity as the split over abortion and capital punishment, the controversy on rehabilitation, strikes by public em- ployees, and the socialization of health services. But who could have foreseen the massive and steadily increasing outpouring-during the 1970s-of solid agreement that the true administration of jus- tice, as it is being practiced, is unfair, that the sentencing process is terribly askew, and that the sooner we do something about it, the better off we'll be. The intensity of the perceived need to do sorne- thing has gotten so strong that many clamor that it is better to do anything in the name of fairness than to leave the situation alone. A quiet minority holds that unless carefully thought through, tested, and widely agreed upon, implementing change in sentencing may exacerbate existing confusion and bring on chaos and eventual col- lapse of a concededly bad system but the only one going for us at the nlomen t, During May 1978, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Peter Rodino Institute of Criminal Justice, an all-day symposium addressed the topic of' unequal justice, especially as it applies to sen- tencing. Many federal and state officials convened. There were judges, prosecutors, court administrators, defense counsel, research scientists, and academicians. Thoughtfully prepared papers were read, and cau- tious responses were made, but the sum of it all was that apart from the unanimous agreement that there were things awfully wrong in Of)enderf97 habITiatwn.VoL 3 I), all 3197 0 1978 by'the Ihtwotlhl Press. All rigins uwnel d,

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