The Need to Target Specific Offenders with More Serious Penalties

question 49

Multiple Choice

The need to target specific offenders with more serious penalties was ______.

• A)the basis for requiring indeterminate federal sentences
• B)the primary focus of the Adult Sentencing Guidelines Manual
• C)a hindrance to creating federal sentencing guidelines
• D)a reason Congress enacted the Sentencing Reform Act

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