PY 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Flowchart, Procedural Knowledge, Descriptive Knowledge

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 377
• Professor: Karen Salekin

Document Summary

Individual deterrence punishment of the offender is presumed to keep that person from committing other crimes in the future: many criminals lack adequate internal inhibitors. Involves looking back at the offense and determining what the criminal deserves as a consequence of committing it: an offender deserves to be punished, punishment should be proportionate to the severity of the crime. Judicial discretion in sentencing: criminal sentencing lies at the heart of society"s efforts to ensure public order. Commission to develop mandatory sentencing guidelines: federal sentencing guidelines are now advisory rather than mandatory. Determinants of sentencing: relevant and irrelevant: punishment should be consistent with the severity of the crime, sentences correlate with crime severity. If they choose to move them into the court system juvenile court judges transfer the case from juvenile court to criminal court: judges see greater rehabilitative potential in juvenile.