- The Commission promulgates guidelines that judges consult when sentencing federal offenders. When the guidelines are amended, a subsequent Guidelines Manual is published.
- In this section, you will find the Commission’s comprehensive archive of yearly amendments and Guidelines Manuals dating back to 1987.
Explore our research and data reports below or download our datafiles and perform your own analysis.
Sourcebooks of Federal Sentencing Statistics
The Sourcebook contains descriptive statistics on the application of the federal sentencing guidelines and provides selected district, circuit, and national sentencing data. The latest edition reports information on offenders sentenced in fiscal year 2019 (October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019).
Interactive Data Analyzer
You've got questions, IDA has data. The Interactive Data Analyzer (IDA) is an online tool that can be used to explore, filter, customize, and visualize federal sentencing data for research, policymaking, and sentencing purposes.
IDA presents annual data that is refreshed periodically with the latest information collected, received, and edited by the Commission.
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(November 2020) In fiscal year 2019, there were 118 organizations convicted of a federal offense, a decrease from the previous year. These offenders can include corporations, partnerships, pension funds, and non-profits. The most common offenses committed by these offenders were fraud and...
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(November 2020) In fiscal year 2019, there were 429 health care fraud offenders, who accounted for 7.6% of all theft, property destruction, and fraud offenses. The number of health care fraud offenders decreased by 10.3% since fiscal year 2015.
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(December 2020) This report updates the 2012 Booker Report’s examination of the influence of the guidelines on the average sentences imposed, using sentencing data collected from 2005 to 2017.
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(August 2020) With a full year of data now available since the passage of the First Step Act of 2018, the Commission released a new report examining the Act's five sentencing reform provisions.
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(July 2020) This publication analyzes recidivism rates among drug offenders who were released immediately before and after retroactive implementation of the 2014 "Drugs Minus Two" Amendment.
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(October 2020) The preliminary data in these reports present selected quarterly sentencing information submitted to the Commission by the U.S. Courts.
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(October 2020) These reports present data on federal cases in which a motion for a reduced sentence was considered as a result of a federal statute or an amendment to the federal sentencing guidelines.
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(October 2020) When possible, the Commission performs prison and sentencing impact assessments as part of its consideration of amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines. The Commission also is often asked to perform prison and sentencing impact assessments for Congress.
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(April 2020) These reports compare FY 2019 federal sentencing statistics for each judicial district, judicial circuit, and state to the nation as a whole.
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(April 2020) This publication presents a broad overview of federal sentencing data for fiscal year 2019. It provides a brief, easy-to-use reference on the types of criminal cases handled by federal courts and the punishments imposed on offenders convicted in those cases.
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(April 2020) These annual reports provide data on the frequency of application of specific guidelines, including increases for aggravating factors and decreases for mitigating factors.
The Commission's individual datafiles provide information on the sentences imposed in cases involving individuals. In these datafiles the individual is the unit of analysis. These datafiles do not contain information from the Commission's Organizational, Resentencing, or Appeals Databases.
The Commission's organizational datafiles provide information on the sentences imposed in cases involving organizational offenders (i.e., corporations, partnerships, and other entities having a legal existence separate from the individuals having an interest in them).
Commission datafiles that are used in various reports to Congress. These datafiles may contain information collected during a special coding project performed for a particular report and, therefore, will not be available in the Commission's fiscal year datafiles.
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(March 2017) This report is submitted to Congress pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 994(w)(3) regarding the compliance of the federal district courts with the documentation submission requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 994(w)(1).
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(July 2016) This report presents findings of the Commission's multi-year study of statutory and guideline definitions relating to the nature of a defendant’s prior conviction and the impact of such definitions on the relevant statutory and guideline provisions.
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(June 2016) This report is submitted to Congress pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 994(w)(3) regarding the compliance of the federal district courts with the documentation submission requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 994(w)(1).