Identify the policy implications and costs associated with structured sentencing.
What will be an ideal response?
Example should indicate that structured sentencing includes determinate sentences and elements such as mandatory minimums and three-strikes laws. These policies reduced or eliminated parole, good time, participation in rehabilitation programs, and alternate sentencing options, and have increased the prison population. As a result, the costs of structured sentences are much greater than indeterminate sentencing.
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What will be an ideal response?
When offenders have accumulated sufficient good time credit to be released, they may:
A) have to serve additional time if they have an additional mandatory sentence for using a gun during the commission of a felony. B) be released conditionally, such as through a form of parole for a specified time period. C) be released unconditionally. D) All of the above
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a. True b. False
If a profit-maximizing restaurant is going to increase its revenues by charging senior citizens (persons age 65 and over) lower prices than other customers,
A. the demand of senior citizens for the services of the restaurant must be inelastic. B. senior citizens must have lower incomes than other potential customers. C. the demand of senior citizens for the services of the restaurant must be elastic. D. senior citizens must have higher incomes than other potential customers. E. other customers must enjoy food more than senior citizens.