CRM/LAW C100 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Substance Abuse, Mental Disorder, Pepper Spray

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C100
• Professor: turner

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It has also grown because when there is an innovation, there are federal funds behind it, which have money behind it. 2: judges are like social workers and focus on treatment and not as much on the punishment aspect. Prisons operate at federal and state level: federal: federal prisons, state: state prisons (34 prisons in ca) and state hospitals (5 in ca, county: county jail, prisons, county mental health (oc & inpatient) Sentencing structure vary: states use indeterminate sentencing, minimum and maximum sentences given by judge, states use determinate sentencing, fixed sentence length, which is used in ca, some states have mandatory sentencing (ie. 3-strikes, drug mandatory) 1: 31 states have death penalty (such as ca) Prisons are big business: us has highest incarceration rate unlike european neighbors, over 2. 2 millions are incarcerated, in ca, more than billion are spent, cost for taxpayers - billion/year.