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Description: The Criminal Code Reform Commission’s (CCRC) mandate is to develop comprehensive recommendations for criminal code reform, for example, reducing overlap between substantially similar offenses and adjusting penalties and fines to be proportionate. To do this work, CCRC needed to evaluate existing District practices regarding charging and sentencing. In 2018, The Lab @ DC provided a detailed analysis of adult charging and sentencing that CCRC used to assess which of the crimes and penalties currently codified in law are relied upon and what statutes and penalties are unused. In 2019, CCRC used analytic code developed by The Lab to update its understanding of the landscape for its advisory group (online at: Advisory Group Memorandum #28 - Statistics on District Adult Criminal Charges and Convictions). All of these analyses will help guide CCRC and its Advisory Groups final recommendations for changes to the District’s statutory language and penalties in 2020.