SOCL 3371 Study Guide - Anger Management, Execution By Firing Squad, Prison Farm
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Sentencing is the imposition of a penalty on a person convicted of a crime. Sentencing the offender: goals / philosophy 5 objectives, retribution: need for vengeance. A call for punishment based on the perceived need for vengeance. Early punishments were often immediate and often extreme and are issued without trial. Death and exile very commonly imposed punishments for relatively minor infractions. Supreme court decision that stated that method of lethal injection was not a method of cruel and unusual punishment. This is the most recent death penalty ruling/moratorium. It is still in the forefront thinking of sentencing. Since we cannot torture, incarceration is the most pain we can inflict. There is a public desire to make jail and prison as uncomfortable as possible: deterrence: crime reduction through punishment. The criminal justice system prevents people from committing crime through punishment. Has a better effect of instrumental crimes than expressive crimes: rehabilitation: fundament changes in offenders.
