How does presumptive sentencing balance indeterminate sentencing with determinate sentencing?

What will be an ideal response?


Presumptive sentencing is a structured sentencing model that attempts to balance sentencing guidelines with mandatory sentencing and at the same time provide discretion to the judge.

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a. metropolitan jails b. rural jails c. rural prisons d. parole boards

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A peremptory challenge may be used:

a. only to strike jurors who are not impartial. b. only to strike jurors who expressed prejudice. c. against any juror without stating a reason. d. against any juror without stating a reason, so long as the challenge is not based on race or gender.

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Whose work was governed by utilitarian principles?

A. Jeremy Bentham B. Cesare Beccaria C. Emile Durkheim D. Raffaele Garofalo

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Using a leverage approach means that officers must continuously confront offenders for undesirable behavior, and then carry out the consequences constantly when rule-violating behavior persists.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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