Montesquieu based the legitimacy of criminal sanctions on the social contract.

Federal and state sentencing guidelines were created to limit prosecutorial discretion so that people committing similar crimes received similar terms of incarceration.

The trend worldwide is to:

How do community treatment and institutional treatment differ for juveniles?

How are illegal immigrants dealt with in the American correctional system?

During the past decade, jail populations saw a steady increase. In the last few years the trend has:

Discuss the average profile of a death row inmate in the U.S.

Responses of inmates on death row include all of the following, except:

Explain some of the main problems with placing juvenile offenders into adult prisons.

Many substance-involved inmates report that at the time of their offense they were in which condition?