Your textbook discusses five major criticisms of determinate sentencing. Which of the following is NOT one of the criticisms?

A. Determinate sentencing creates judicial disparity in sentencing.
B. Determinate sentencing merely shifts sentencing discretion from judges to legislatures and prosecutors.
C. Determinate sentencing produces an unusually harsh prison system.
D. Determinate sentencing creates overcrowded prisons.


Answer: A

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