01:202:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Inmates
10 Apr 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Criminal Justice Week 12
Police
Chapter 9
The Presentence Investigation
- PSI (title)
o The examination of a convicted offender’s background prior to sentencing
Structured Sentencing
Mitigating Circumstances
- Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce
the blameworthiness of the offender
Retribution
- The act of taking revenge on a criminal perpetrator
- The earliest known rationale for punishment
- Corresponds to the model of sentencing called just deserts
Just deserts
- A model of criminal sentencing that holds that criminal offenders deserve the
punishment they receive
- The primary sentencing tool of the just deserts model is imprisonment
Incapacitation
- The use of imprisonment or other means to reduce the likelihood that an offender will
commit future offenses
- Seeks to protect innocent members of society
Deterrence
General Deterrence
- A goal of criminal sentencing that seeks to prevent others from committing crimes similar
to the one for which a particular offender is being sentenced by making an example of
the person sentenced
- Overall goal is crime prevention
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Document Summary
The examination of a convicted offender"s background prior to sentencing. Circumstances relating to the commission of a crime that may be considered to reduce the blameworthiness of the offender. The act of taking revenge on a criminal perpetrator. Corresponds to the model of sentencing called just deserts. A model of criminal sentencing that holds that criminal offenders deserve the punishment they receive. The primary sentencing tool of the just deserts model is imprisonment. The use of imprisonment or other means to reduce the likelihood that an offender will commit future offenses. A goal of criminal sentencing that seeks to prevent others from committing crimes similar to the one for which a particular offender is being sentenced by making an example of the person sentenced. A goal of criminal sentencing that seeks to prevent a particular offender from engaging in repeat criminality. Aims to reduce the likelihood of recidivism.
