Sentencing Federal Sexual Offenders: Protection of Children from Sexual PredatorsAct of 1998

摘要

The Sexual Predators Act Policy Team (the team) is the latest in a series ofCommission working groups charged with analyzing the guidelines concerning sex offenses against children. The team was chartered to assist the Commission in developing possible responses to the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998, Pub. L. 105-314 (the Act). This Act contains both specific and general directives to the Commission to review relevant guidelines and, upon completion of the review, provide appropriate enhancements and otherwise increase penalties in certain circumstances, while ensuring reasonable consistency among the guidelines and avoiding duplicative punishment.