How did the Martinson findings of "nothing works" influence the use of parole and the medical model?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: For public officials desiring to reduce costs and make corrections more punitive, this study provided statistical support, and their arguments for a return to determinate sentences gained momentum.Over the next two decades, fifteen states and the federal government ended the use of indeterminate sentencing and discretionary parole, in which the decision to release the offender was made by a parole board. Twenty other states severely limited the parole-eligible population.
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Compare and contrast two subcultural theories of crime.
What will be an ideal response?
______ is referred to as the study of right and wrong, duty, responsibility, and personal character.
a. Ethics b. Discretion c. Profiling d. Nonfeasance
A trial judge may not deal with a continually disruptive defendant by having the defendant bound and gagged
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false