Define and discuss the five sentencing functions identified in the text
What will be an ideal response?
• Retribution: Punishment dimension that expresses society's disapproval of criminal behavior
• Incapacitation: Reduces opportunity for further criminal behavior by imprisonment
• Deterrence: Belief that punishment will reduce the likelihood of future criminal behavior either by the particular offender or by others in society who fear similar punishment
• Rehabilitation: Belief that by providing services – social, psychological, educational, or vocational – an offender will be less likely to commit future crimes
• Restitution: Repayment by an offender to the victim or to society in money or services for the harm committed
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A) DOS operating system B) Windows operating system C) Linux operating system D) UNIX operating system
Victim-Offender Reconciliation Programs (VORP’s) are an integral part of what criminal justice philosophy?
a. rehabilitative b. retributive c. restorative d. punishment
Discuss three of the empirical findings with regard to social costs and deterrence of the exclusionary rule
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is not an advantage of the use of matrix questions?
a. they are faster to complete for respondents b. they do not take much thought on the part of the respondents to answer c. they use space efficiently d. the format increases the comparability of responses given to different questions for the respondent as well as the researcher