Contrast indeterminate with determinate sentencing
What will be an ideal response?
• Penal codes with indeterminate sentences set a minimum and maximum amount of time that a person must spend in prison. The prisoner is eligible for parole as soon as the minimum time has been served.
• Determinate sentencing involves a fixed period of incarceration. The prisoner serves exactly the amount of time to which he or she was sentenced (minus good time).
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Humanistic motivation theorists focus on:
a. environmental factors influencing motivation. b. satisfaction of a person's internal needs. c. a process of rewards and punishments. d. learned behavior. e. all of the above.
Journalist Jacob Sullum uses the drug _______ to illustrate the idea that addiction is not the result of physical dependence, and that withdrawal symptoms are exaggerated
a. cocaine b. marijuana c. PCP d. heroin
Which country/region has the largest number of terrorist groups?
A. Iraq B. African groups C. Asian groups D. Middle East
The purpose of making possessory offenses a crime is to
A. raise arrest rates. B. arrest criminals without having to catch them red-handed. C. show other criminals that they cannot escape the law. D. deter further criminal activity.