American Law Institute, Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Plan for Revision

Abstract

The following pages contain a faithful reproduction of the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Plan for Revision, a document that stands at the beginning of the ALI’s project to revisit as much as onehalf of the original Model Penal Code. The Plan for Revision is not a traditional law review article, nor does it reflect the official positions of the ALI. Rather, it was my attempt (as reporter for the revision) to draw the outlines of a new sentencing structure for the Code, as a step preliminary to the first round of black-letter proposals. Within the context of the ALI drafting process, which includes multi-layered deliberations over a number of years, and is informed by comments and feedback from hundreds of participants and observers, the Plan for