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Commission considers wording changes to purposes and principles, adds 'effective community supervision'
Summary
Staff proposed edits to the guidelines’ purpose and principle language, substituting less stigmatizing terms and explicitly listing 'effective community supervision' alongside rehabilitation, deterrence and incapacitation; commissioners suggested minor wording edits and signaled informal consensus to include the changes.
A staff member presented proposed language edits to the sentencing guidelines’ purposes and principles section, incorporating recommendations from an academic draft and past commissioner suggestions.
The changes would reduce or replace the term “defendant” where feasible with “offender” (while acknowledging statutory usages) and add “effective community…
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