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Political pressure has no real impact on how a judge may choose to impose a criminal sentence.

A formal procedure that takes place when a parole board decides that the parole must end because the offender committed a new crime or violated the conditions of parole is a:

Based on recent research, who is more statistically likely to commit violent crimes?

Almost half of the women in prison today under mandatory sentencing laws have been convicted of:

The various types of sentences that can be awarded by the courts are called:

The salient factor score places inmates in the risk categories of:

Parolees may be subjected to random searches by parole officers.

Rights that have been guaranteed and protected by the government are known as:

Which type of attempts to calculate the impact that a well-publicized execution has on the short-term murder rate?

Which Supreme Court case determined that unannounced cell searches were necessary for the security and order of a jail/prison?