NCJ Number
39990
Date Published
1976
Length
0 pages
Annotation
VIDEO CASSETTE DISCUSSION PROBES THE EFFECT THAT DETERMINATE AND INDETERMINATE SENTENCING IN OKLAHOMA CAN HAVE ON CRIME RATES, AND WHETHER PAROLE MAY BE ON ITS WAY OUT.
Abstract
SHOULD PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME OR THE CRIMINAL? THAT IS THE QUESTION THAT THIS TAPE TACKLES. WITH FIRST TIMERS, ONE PANELIST STATES THAT IT SHOULD FIT THE INDIVIDUAL. WITH RECIDIVISTS IT SHOULD FIT THE CRIME. FEW OTHER SOCIETIES ALLOW SUCH DISPARITY IN THE SENTENCING PROCESS AS OCCURS IN THE U.S. THERE ARE SOME 80 FACTORS THAT CAN INFLUENCE SENTENCING, SUCH AS CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE CRIME, PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORD, SERIOUSNESS OF THE OFFENSE, AND CHARACTER OF THE DEFENDANT....BS