Inmates' perceptions of determinate and indeterminate sentences
作者:
Calvin J. Larson,
Bruce L. Berg,
期刊:
Behavioral Sciences&the Law
(WILEY Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 7,
issue 1
页码: 127-137
ISSN:0735-3936
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1002/bsl.2370070109
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe movement to replace indeterminate with determinate sentencing is among the most important recent developments in the criminal justice field. While the views of citizens and scholars on the subject have been widely promulgated, little is known about those of the ultimate “consumers” of sentencing reform, namely, inmates. This article examines the views of a systematic sample of inmates in a maximum security institution in Massachusetts. Subjects' opinions were sought on the relative merits of the two typs of sentencing, and possible behavioral and deterrent effects of a proposed switch to determinate sentencing. More inmates were found to be either opposed to or undecided about than in favor of determinate sentenc
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