SOC 214 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Solitary Confinement, Carcinogen, Excessive Bail Clause
22 Mar 2018
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Focus on the key purpose of the trial. Authorize what cases they want to hear or plea, then conduct trial: what goes into sentencing. 2 components: seriousness of harm, offenders culpability how responsible they were (eg. drunk, mentally ill) Aggravating vs. mitigating factors: go into how lenient/tough the sentencing is, aggravating: prosecution. Help make sentence more lenient: mandatory sentencing. Incarceration: jail short term, state run, prison long term, mostly federal run (over 1 year sentence) Probation: if you violate probation, you"ll go to prison, jail, most frequent, serve to the community, intensive supervision probation stricter guidelines, house arrest and electronic monitoring, at home, couped with other sentences, gps. Fines: first time offenders, day fines court takes % of your income, fines after you are released from jail, restitution, offender pays back the victim, condition of probation, community service, trash pickers. Scarlet letter punishment: cheap alternative, morally satisfactory ix.
