Exam 3: Sentencing: to Punish or to Reform

The process of making an offender a productive member of the community is called:

The use of individual punishment to dissuade others from committing crimes is called _____.

The use of individual punishment to dissuade others from committing crimes is called general deterrence.

New punishment options developed to fill the gap between traditional probation and traditional jail or prison sentences and to better match the severity of punishment to the seriousness of the crime are known as _____.

If you punish a person seeking to change that person's behavior, it is called _____.

Criminals are incarcerated to teach them the consequences of their actions, not to bring them under such an environment where they are not able to engage in crime.

The discouragement or prevention of crimes through the fear of punishment is called just deserts.

The conditional release of a prisoner, prior to completion of the imposed sentence, under the supervision of a parole officer is called _____.

The Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections recommended that, at sentencing, the federal system should reserve prison beds for those convicted of the most serious federal crimes.

The concept of just deserts de-emphasizes the _____ component of revenge.

The process of making an offender a productive member of the community is called _____.

Legislatively approved provisions that mandate longer prison terms for specific criminal offenses committed under certain circumstances are called _____.

_____ literally means "paying back" the offender for what he or she has done.

Sentences that are required by law under certain circumstances are referred to as:

A sentence in which a judge specifies a maximum length and a minimum length and an administrative agency determines the actual time of release is called a(n) _____.

A sentence that specifies a given amount of time to be served in custody and allows little or no variation from the time specified is called a(n):

The discouragement or prevention of crimes through the fear of punishment is called:

Punishment as vengeance is also called:

Fines are paid to the _____; restitution is usually paid to the _____.

Payments made by a criminal offender to his or her victim as compensation for the harm caused by the offense are called: