What are the four different approaches to sentencing listed in the text and how do they operate? Which do you think makes the most sense?

What will be an ideal response?


Determinate sentences/mandatory minimum sentences/indeterminate sentences/presumptive sentencing guidelines

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The use of the Uniform Crime Reports in the analysis of crime trends serves as an example of secondary analysis

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which idea did Ivan Nye introduce to social control theories?

a. Distinctions exist between internal and external social controls. b. Individuals are rational, free-willed, hedonistic beings. c. Power and inequality allow some individuals to be defined as criminal while others evade. d. Distinctions exist between adolescent and adult criminal learning.

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Which Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the defendant the right to a speedy trial?

a. 4th Amendment b. 5th Amendment c. 6th Amendment d. 14th Amendment

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Student loan companies have been found to push higher interest private loans and to employ unfair bait and switch tactics

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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