CJ 2696 Lecture 20: pc notes 20

• School: Temple University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 2696
• Professor: Tara Tripp

Document Summary

Your authors note that sentencing is a very complicated topic that can be analyzed from many different aspects. The public thinks of sentencing as the punishment imposed by the trial judge after a defendant has been convicted. The legislatures enact laws that outline which punishments judges can apply to different types of offenses. Habitual and repeat offender laws allow judges to enhance the punishment based on a defendant"s prior criminal record. This is only just one component associated with sentencing. Sentencing laws also include parole laws that govern the back end of the process, addressing if and when offenders can be released from prison before their entire court imposed sentence is completed. Parole laws generally regulate good time or earned time. Sentencing laws also address what penalties should be applied when probationers and parolees violate their conditions of release the sentencing sea of change.