1. Cultural Diversity and Criminal Justice
... state sentencing systems, social and legal scholars pressed for legislation that would replace indeterminate sentencing with a system that offered greater predictability in determining proper sentence dispositions and lengths of imprisonment (Frankel, 1973; von Hirsch, 1976; Kennedy 1979). Sentencing reformers advocated for structured systems that limited judicial discretion with the expectation that these would create certainty ... with reductions in the proportion of the sentence that they must serve in prison-and to bring back early release programs, which were largely abandoned in th...
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