Explain the sentencing philosophy of rehabilitation. Provide one example to illustrate this philosophy.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but key points include: The concept of rehabilitation focuses on
reforming criminal behavior so that the offender does not need or want to engage in
future acts of crime.
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The first juvenile institution in the United States was
a. the New York House of Refuge b. the Cleveland Cottages c. The California Youth Detention Center d. The Boston Youth Detention Center
No matter whether the programs were treatment-oriented or supervision-oriented, mixing low-risk offenders with high-risk offenders in the same program has been shown to decrease recidivism.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. About half of the white collar crime defendants charged in federal cases go to trial. 2. There is evidence that in criminal cases, jurors are more likely to hold corporations more blameworthy than individual executives for wrongdoing. 3. Trial jurors find it overwhelmingly easy to discriminate between collective and individual accountability in white collar criminal cases. 4. Unlike conventional offenders, high-status white collar crime offenders tend to face juries that consist of people very much like themselves. 5. Ordinary jurors typically have no more difficulty in understanding the details of complex white collar crime cases once these are adequately explained to them.
Tong (1986) explains that cost-benefit analysis comprises all of the following stages except:
a. Social movements b. Defining goals c. Philosophical analysis d. None of the above