Concept information
Preferred term
sentencing policy and legislation
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Ashurst-Sumners Act
- clemency
- compassionate release
- determinate sentencing
- discipline system
- Dothard v. Rawlinson
- Eighth Amendment
- Estelle v. Gamble
- First Amendment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Freedom of Information Acts
- Furman v. Georgia
- good time credit
- habeas corpus
- Hawes Cooper Act 1929
- indeterminate sentencing
- jailhouse lawyers
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 1989
- life without parole
- megan's law
- mens rea
- parens patriae
- politicians
- President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
- prisoner litigation
- Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program
- Prison Litigation and Reform Act
- Rehabilitation Act 1973
- Ruiz v. Estelle
- Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act
- Sentencing Reform Act 1984
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Three Prisons Act 1891
- three-strikes legislation
- truth in sentencing
- USA PATRIOT Act 2001
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 1994
- Volstead Act 1918
- war on drugs
- Wilson v. Seiter
- Youth Corrections Act 1950
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/sentencing_policy_and_legislation
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