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luminitza

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What is the benefit of including personal and life history information in an offender's PSI?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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How could the plea bargaining process be a potential detriment to the accused?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: Answer should include discussion of how judges may be more lenient and/or sentence the offender to treatment dispositions rather than just incarceration if he/she has certain needs or traumatic life experiences.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Answer should include discussion of how the pressure to plea averts the right to a trial by jury of one's peers, especially if the offender is innocent.




luminitza

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Reply 2 on: Aug 17, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


pratush dev

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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