Criminal justice

determined sentencing

• set sentenced

• it can be reduced

• made by proscutors

• explained during arrest

define "good time"

• no jail time

• lawyer spoken

• reduced sentence

Ensure convicts will serve approximately the term they were initially sentenced

• Imprisonment

• fines

• Capital punishment

• Truth in sentencing law

Investigate report on offenders background

• Presentence investigative report

• lab report

• forensics

• determination

"real offense"

• offense attorney

• Defense attorney

• Offense committed

• charged levied

may become a light sentence

• philosophy

• mitigating circumstances

• appointed

• Plea bargin

Aggravating circumstances

• line officers

• disorganized

• impact statements

• Harsher sentence

Those who commit similar convictions don't receive same punishment

• discrimination

• sentence disparity

• Death sentence

• probation

Sentence discrimination

• habitual offender laws

• decision influenced by gender, race, etc

• guidelines

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

What is indeterminate sentencing?

• range of years

• definite amount

• the conviction

• when being arrested