Reducing disparity in sentencing for similar offenses, increasing or decreasing punishments for certain types of offenders and offenses, establishing truth-in-sentencing policies or laws, reducing prison crowding, and making the sentencing process more rational are goals associated with what correctional tool?

What will be an ideal response?


sentencing guidelines

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What are the biggest problems facing the criminal justice system in the area of computer crime?

What will be an ideal response?

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The motives for female serial killers are often different from the motives of males and according to Moriarty and Freiberger includes:

a. Attention, frustration, jealousy, cult and revenge b. Anger, attention, cult and revenge c. Manipulation, frustration and jealousy d. Manipulation, attention and revenge

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How do most inmates deal with the rigors and frustrations of confinement?

A. They bind themselves to fellow inmates in ties of mutual aid and loyalty. B. They wage a war against everyone in the facility. C. They withdraw into themselves. D. Their actions combine aspects of both binding themselves to fellow inmates, and waging war against everyone in the facility.

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Which operational element of local police agencies is considered the “backbone” of policing?

A. investigations B. patrol C. communications D. records

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