Exam 7: Sentencing

The idea of removing the highest-risk offenders from contact with the general population is called selective

Which of the following represents a problem with the use of determinate sentencing?

A presentencing report based largely on extralegal factors is likely to discriminate against offenders with little prior work experience and poor educational histories.

The imprisonment of women has decreased significantly over the past several decades.

The prosecuting attorney as perhaps the most powerful individual in the criminal justice system.

The main two parties involved in the plea-bargaining process are the

Who has the ultimate decision over whether to prosecute a case or not?

The net effect of sentencing guidelines is that they

The incarceration rate for the United States, when compared to other "First World" nations, is four to five times higher.

It is estimated that almost 60 percent of African-American males will be arrested by their twenty-third birthday, while 45 percent of white males will have been arrested by that age.

What is one of the problems with mandatory minimum sentences?

Which form of sentencing dominating the legal scene in the United States until the abandonment of rehabilitation and the advent of the new penology and mass imprisonment?

Which single group of offenders have accounted for most of the growth in both the state and federal prison systems?

The United States has the world's highest incarceration rate.

High imprisonment rates are a result of a complex interplay of our fear of crime and punitive values that are moderated by American political processes.

After subtracting all of the drug offenders behind bars, our incarceration rate would be about equal to that of England.

When courts within one's state hand out harsher punishments to persons from another state, researchers call these outcomes justice by geography.

Prison populations in this nation began to increase dramatically, despite the fact that crime rates were relatively stable, in the

In California, an offense often linked to "Three-Strikes" prosecutions that can be filed as either a misdemeanor or a felony is called

The United States locks up more people per capita than any other first-world nation. Yet, with the exception of homicide, most industrialized nations have property and violent crime rates very similar to America.