Section 5.5: Sentencing
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Learning Resources
| Learning Objectives | |
| 5.5(a) | Recite the text of the Eighth Amendment, and discuss the impact of each clause on the American criminal justice system. |
| 5.5(b) | Describe the differences between structured and indeterminate sentencing. |
| 5.5(c) | Describe the different types of structured sentences in use today. |
| 5.5(d) | Trace the historical reasons for the development of mandatory sentencing laws. |
| 5.5(e) | Describe the content and function of a presentence investigation report. |
| 5.5(f) | Trace the history and describe the function of the federal sentencing guidelines. |
| 5.5(g) | Outline the major arguments for and against the death penalty. |
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Key Terms
- Appeal
- Asset Forfeiture
- Boot Camps
- Community Service
- Concurrent Sentence
- Consecutive Sentence
- Day Fine
- Death Penalty
- Determinate Sentencing
- Electronic Monitoring
- Fine
- Forfeiture
- Good Time
- Home Confinement
- House Arrest
- Indeterminate Sentencing
- Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP)
- Mandatory Sentences
- Overturn
- Presentence Investigation Report
- Probation
- Proportionality Doctrine
- Remand
- Scarlet-Letter Punishments
- Sentencing
- Sentencing Hearing
- Sentencing Reform Act of 1984
- Sentencing Statute
- U.S. Sentencing Commission
- Uphold
- Victim Impact Statement
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Last Updated: 04/21/2021