A
An example of an indeterminate sentence would be
25- Life
5-10 Years
1-3 Years
Circumstances that make the commission of a crime more understandable.
Mitigating Circumstance
A strategy for preventing crime by detaining wrongdoers in prison, preventing them from committing further crimes.
Incapacitation
An example of a determinate sentence is?
Life
1 Year
10 Years
This courtroom worker decides on what sentence a convicted person recieves.
Judge
Require that people convicted of serious violent felonies serve at least 85% of their original sentence.
Truth in Sentencing Laws
Require judges to determine sentences based on factors such as the seriousness of the crime and offender’s prior record
Sentencing Guidelines
Retribution relies on the principle of ___, which holds that the severity of the punishment must fit the crime
Just Desserts
Circumstance such as the use of a weapon or previous violent felonies, that make the commission of a crime worse.
Aggrivating Circumstances
Assumes that an individual, after being punished once for an act, will be less likely to repeat that act in the future.
Specific Deterrance
This is type of punishment is considered both specific and general deterrance
Capital Punishment
Supreme Court Case that outlawed the death penalty for those under the age of 18.
Roper v Simmons
Capital Punishment is legal in ____ states, the federal government, and the military.
27
Also known as habitual offender laws
Three Strikes Laws
In this case, the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional as it was being applied (1972)
Furman v Georgia
Limit a judges discretion by not allowing them to deviate from determinate sentencing laws by setting firm standards on length and type of sentence.
Mandatory Sentencing Guidelines
Who was the first person in America to be executed via the electric chair in 1890?
William Kemmler
Another term for Determinate Sentence is
Fixed Sentence
Which judicial disposition involves an offender living in the community under supervision rather than being incarcerated?
Probation
The ______ is based on the actual behavior of the defendant, regardless of the official conviction, or plea.
Real Offense
Supreme Court case that outlawed the execution of menatlly ill people
Atkins v Virginia
Which methods of execution have legally been used as a punishment in America?
Electricution, Poison Gas, Hanging, Firing Squad Lethal Injection.
Which case established the precedent that the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to find the aggravating factors necessary to impose a death sentence?
Ring v Arizona
Which case established the precedent that a state’s lethal injection protocol is constitutional unless an inmate can prove that a feasible, readily implemented alternative exists that would significantly reduce a "substantial risk of severe pain"?
Baze v Rees
This Supreme Court case challenged racial bias of the use of Capital Punishment.
McCleskey v Kemp