Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

Sex offences are usually hate crimes. Federal law, however, outlaws sex offences when they occur on federal lands or in federal prisons, when they involve interstate or foreign travel, or when they involve child pornography whose production or distribution is associated in some way with interstate or foreign commerce. Mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment attend conviction for any of several of these federal sex crimes. Aggravated identity theft is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for two years or by imprisonment for five years if it relates to a terrorism offence. The two-year offence occurs when an individual knowingly possesses, uses, or transfers the means of identification of another person, without lawful authority to do so, during and in relation to one of more than 60 predicate federal felony offences. This book provides an overview of federal mandatory minimum sentencing law with regard to sexual offences and aggravated identity theft, specifically.