1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... model. The federal parole guidelines, initially developed in the late 1960s, allowed parole hearing examiners to set the length of incarceration within a narrow range specified in a chart or grid) based on a) offense severity and b) the offender's past criminal record. Deviations from the parole guideline ranges were granted by written request (Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1996). Furthermore, in ... that sentencing offenders to a maximum/minimum range of years of imprisonment), mandatory minimum sentences (statutes specifying that offenders serve at least a minimum numbers of years for ...
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