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Criminal Justice Exam FourVictims - correct answer ✔✔Impact statements, can stand up and say what kind of harm the defendant
caused.
Pendergrass Sentencing Assignment - correct answer ✔✔Who is responsible for the death of an inmate?
Pendergrass and Officer Castro, may be an institutional failure. What punishment (if any) do you think
fits the crime? In other words, what type of sentence (if any) should the correctional officer face (i.e.
House arrest, community supervision, jail, prison) and for how long?
Concurrent Sentencing - correct answer ✔✔All of your sentences run at the same time. So, you're only
serving your longest sentence.
Consecutive Sentencing - correct answer ✔✔One after the other. So you''ll serve three years, then
fifteen, then twenty. In all, 38 years.
Determinate Sentencing - correct answer ✔✔You'll know how much time is served when the sentence is
pronounced. Fixed terms, no parole.
Legislative Determinate Sentencing - correct answer ✔✔Legislature pass laws with specific penalties for
offenses.
Judicial Determinate Sentencing - correct answer ✔✔Judge will have discretion to sentence you within a
range, but what they say sticks.
Indeterminate Sentencing - correct answer ✔✔You do not know the exact amount of time you will serve
based on the judges sentence. Sentenced to a range and the parole board will make determination of
when you get released. Idea is that individuals can be rehabilitated at different speed.
Real Offense Scoring - correct answer ✔✔The judge (probation officer) are the ones who can adjust
offense levels based on facts that aren't going to jury. A lot of state systems don't rely heavily on this,
such as Minnesota, which uses Sentencing Guidelines Grid, real conviction scoring.
, Sixth Amendment - correct answer ✔✔Right to trial, US vs Booker. Mandatory guidelines had to be
unconstitutional because factors increase sentence work not subject to jury.
Colonial Model (1600s-1790s) - correct answer ✔✔Lots of punishment for religious crimes. Harsh public,
open physical punishment. Exclusion from clan was common.
Penitentiary Model (1790s-1870s) - correct answer ✔✔Idea is that criminals were supposed to be
isolated from society. As isolation happened, they were supposed to show penitence (remorse). The first
jail opened under this model in Philadelphia in 1790, called Walnut Street Jail. All solitary.
Auburn Model - correct answer ✔✔Individual cells, contract labor system, work 10 hours a day, six days
a week, teach discipline.
Reform Era (1870s-1890s) - correct answer ✔✔Penitentiary is working, emphasize change while in
facilities, prisons can be iatrogenic (crime enabling).
Elmira Reformatory (1876) - correct answer ✔✔Heavy emphasis on training inmates on skills needed to
help live a crime free life. Classify inmates based on risks/needs. Incentives given within the institution,
birth of good time credits. A lot of facilities open for specific purposes (female prisons, juvenile prisons).
Progressive Model (1890s-1930s) - correct answer ✔✔Aligns closely with sociological explanations of
crime. Social based approach. Instead of simply locking people up in the institutions, we should invest in
social programs, individualized treatment plans in institutions.
Medical Model (1930s-1960s) - correct answer ✔✔Idea that criminals are "mentally ill" and the purpose
of corrections is to "treat" them.
Community Model (1960s) - correct answer ✔✔We again see punishment and institutions as "crime
causing". Focus shift is community re-entry.
Crime Control Model (1970s-2010) - correct answer ✔✔Few factors led here:
Martinson's Nothing Works Report
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