What are the aims of the four sentencing goals?

What will be an ideal response?


Rehabilitation: designed to change the defendant's behavior.
Retribution: offenders must be punished fairly and justly.
Incapacitation: Offenders are removed from society.
Deterrence: General aims to discourage others from committing a similar crime and specific aims to punish that offender to prevent him/her from reoffending.

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a. comprehensive criteria b. reasonable parameters c. fair yardsticks d. standardized criteria

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Which of the following statements about children in the Middle Ages is false?

A. Children of all classes were subjected to stringent rules & regulations B. Girls were educated at home & married in their early teens C. Children were expected to undertake responsibilities early in their lives D. The parent-child relationship was particularly close & loving

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The ________ formation involved lines of inmates marching with hands on shoulders

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Which of the following is prison slang for psychotropic medications?

a. insect repellent b. bug juice c. bug zapper d. pest control

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