NASC 2024 Conference

2024 Conference Theme 

This year marks the second year of the thirty-year celebration of NASC. The 2024 conference theme is:

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NASC Thirty Year Anniversary Conference: Part II (2024) Sentencing Then and Now: The Role of Commissions in Sentencing Reform, 1993/1994 to 2023/2024

When  the first informal gathering of state Sentencing Commissions took place  at the University of Colorado in 1993, criminal justice systems across  the United States were in the midst of historically high crime rates and  growing correctional populations and costs. While some states had  created Sentencing Commissions a decade or more earlier, these  challenges coincided with the creation of several new state Sentencing  Commissions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The exact role of  Commissions and the precise form of policy change varied by state, but  there was typically some form of more determinate sentencing policies  such as mandatory minimums, three-strikes laws, or “truth-in-sentencing”  policies designed…