REVIEW EXAM
◉ Equity/Restitution: Answer: Paying people back (harmful crime)
◉ Restoration: Answer: Support Services for victim
◉ Incapacitation: Answer: Keep offenders under state control
◉ what are some other factors..? Answer: -Population makeup
-Police Effectiveness
-Drug use
-Economy
◉ What is Equity and Restitution? Answer: Awarding each person
their just due
◉ What does just due mean? Answer: Owed/ right
◉ Concurrent sentences: Answer: Served at the same time
, ◉ Consecutive Sentences: Answer: Served one after the other
◉ The effect of a good time: (not getting in trouble) Answer:
Reduction in sentence for good behavior
◉ Indeterminate Sentences: Answer: Offenders are placed in
confinement only until they are rehabilitated and then released on
parole.
◉ Determinate Sentences: Answer: A fixed term of years to be
served by the offender sentenced to prison.
◉ What are the sentencing guidelines? Answer: -Regulate the length
of determinate sentences
- Curb judicial discretion
-Created by sentencing commissions
◉ who/what is a commission? Answer: Politicians / persecutors or
persecutors would appoint people
◉ What is the Sentencing grid? Answer: Charges, if they have done
the crime before/severity