 | Chapter Objectives
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After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Identify the general factors that influence a judge's sentencing decisions.
- Describe how judges tailor sentences to fit the crime and the offender.
- Distinguish between indeterminate and determinate sentences.
- Explain the three basic types of determinate sentences.
- List five rationales or justifications for criminal punishment.
- Explain the purposes of presentence investigation reports.
- List the legal bases for appeal.
- Identify the type of crime for which death may be a punishment.
- Summarize the three major procedural reforms the U.S. Supreme Court approved for death penalty cases in the Gregg decision.
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