Differentiate between judicial, administrative, and legislative forms of sentencing
What will be an ideal response?
• In the judicial form, judges have considerable discretion in sentencing decisions. The administrative form of sentencing grants discretion primarily to officials of the executive branch of government. This includes prison officials in the award of good time and parole board members in determining when inmates will be released. In the legislative form of sentencing, legislative bodies create penal codes with determinate sentences and little (or no) discretion available to judges.
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a. Firearms c. Opportunity b. Alcohol d. Drug abuse
Victim advocates can be found in ______ to assist victims by providing information, emotional support, resources, filling out paperwork, and accompanying victims to court.
a. bus stations b. correctional institutions c. for profit organizations d. educational institutions
What are the two major types or techniques used to assess partner abuse?
What will be an ideal response?
A threat is an expression of the intent to do harm or act out violently against someone or something, and threat assessment rests on two critical principles: that all threats and threateners are not equal and that most threateners are ________ to carry out their threats.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).