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Criminal Justice P rocess:

Criminal Justice P rocess:. Sentencing and Corrections Chapter 15. Final stage of criminal justice system. Sentencing By judge or the jury Determines the defendant’s fate for years/life. Sentencing Options. Basic guidelines for setting sentencing are set by statutes.

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Criminal Justice P rocess:

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  1. Criminal Justice Process: Sentencing and Corrections Chapter 15

  2. Final stage of criminal justice system • Sentencing • By judge or the jury • Determines the defendant’s fate for years/life

  3. Sentencing Options • Basic guidelines for setting sentencing are set by statutes. • Judges generally determine the appropriate sentence • Options judges use: • Suspended sentence – allowing to serve at a later time • Releasing the defendant to a probation officer • Home confinement -Allowing to serve time at home • Judge may issue a fine • Restitution- Require defendant to pay back the victim • Work release- Allow defendant to work in the community in the day, nights goes back to prison • Most severe --- imprisonment or death

  4. Three Strikes Law • Increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of a felony who have been previously convicted of two or more violent crimes or serious felonies, and limits the ability of these offenders to receive a punishment other than a life sentence • Reflects the get-tough attitude toward crime

  5. Purposes of Punishment Four reasons given for punishing convicted defendants: • Retribution • Deterrence • Rehabilitation • incapacitation

  6. Retribution • Punishment should involve some for of payback • “An eye for an eye” and “a tooth for a tooth”

  7. Deterrence • Punishment will discourage others from engaging in future criminal activities

  8. Rehabilitation • Time in prison will allow the prisoner to change his or her ways and learn how to function as a productive member of society.

  9. Incapacitation • Removes individual from society in order to make the community safe from the threat he or she posed.

  10. Parole • The release of a convicted person from prison before the entire sentence has been served • It is a privilege granted to those the seem to have reformed and appear ready to rejoin society

  11. Capital Punishment • AKA death penalty • Highly controversial topic • The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment under certain circumstances.

  12. Corrections • Several treatment and punishment options available to the government. • Halfway houses • Mental facilities • Prisons • Some correctional system focus on preparing prisoner to re-enter society

  13. The End Test – next class on key terms and main concepts of chapter 12, 13, 14, 15

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