CJUS320

Over the past fifty years, the sentencing options available to judges have increased. Sentenced offenders can serve up to one year in jail. Which of the following is the process during which officials determine whether a juvenile case should be dismissed, handled informally, or referred to the juvenile court? As many drug crimes were federalized, the federal prison population declined with less than one-third of all federal prison inmates serving sentences for drug offe...

Prison staff are trained to monitor inmates only intermittently so as not to interfere with their privacy. Even if deterrence does not work, advocates suggest that long sentences will at least rehabilitate offenders. Drug abuse programs are not particularly important in prisons. Contraband is defined as the list of items that prison inmates are legally allowed to possess. The task of controlling behavior and maintaining order envisions a picture of total and absolute control by correctional o...