Proportionality is a sentencing principle that holds that the severity of sanctions should be much greater than the severity of the crime committed
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Which of the following is not a prominent private security firm?
a. Wells Fargo b. Pinkerton c. Wackenhut d. Enron
Some law enforcement agencies are establishing civil defense battalions of citizen volunteers to replace the police officers in cases of natural disasters and terrorists acts.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Differential criminality means that _____________.
A. justice in the correctional system cannot be ensured without eliminating racial disparities. B. the correctional system is vulnerable to charges of racism. C. discrimination accounts for the disproportionate representation of minorities in corrections. D. more minorities will end up in corrections because they commit more and worse crimes.
Juries, not judges, must make the critical findings that sentence killers to death was ruled in Ring v. Arizona (2002)
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