CHAPTER 13 QUESTIONS
1-6
1. What did The State of the Prisons
inspire Parliament to do? (Page 393)
2. How did punishment rise? (Page
394)
3. Can criminal offenders be effectively
treated so that they can eventually
readjust to society? (Page 395)
4. How do you defray the costs in a
predatory crime? (Page 396)
5. What are the factors of influencing a
sentencing decision? (Page 397)
6. What happens if a sentence is
concurrent? (Page 397)
CHAPTER 13 QUESTIONS
7-12
7. What is the basic purpose of the
indeterminate sentence? (Page 398)
8. What do good-time laws allow
inmates to do, and how can it be
lost? (Page 399)
9. What are the Minnesota guidelines?
(Page 401)
10. What happened to white men after
guidelines were implemented? (Page
403)
11. How are people sentenced? (Page
404-405)
12. How long is the average sentence?
(Page 405)
CHAPTER 13 QUESTIONS
13-18
13. What factors influence judges
when they decide on criminal
sentences? (Page 406)
14. How is age a factor of sentencing?
(Page 409)
15. What has the U.S. Supreme Court
limited in capital punishment? (Page
410)
16. How many states use the death
penalty? (Page 410)
17. How is the death penalty morally
correct? (Page 415)
18. Explain unfair use of discretion?
(Page 417)
CHAPTER 13 QUESTIONS
19-24
19. How does the death sentence rule
out rehabilitation? (Page 419)
20. What happened in the Gregg v.
Georgia case? (Page 421)
21. What did the court rule about
jurors in the Witherspoon v. Illinois
case? (Page 423)
22. What are the 3 methods of the
death penalty? (Page 424)
23. What have researchers found about
the three methods? (Page 424)
24. What people are not likely to be
under the threat of the death
penalty? (Page 424)