Judges May Deviate from the Sentencing Guidelines If Aggravating or Circumstances

question 69

Multiple Choice

Judges may deviate from the sentencing guidelines if aggravating or circumstances exist.

• A) mitigating
• B) fixed
• C) purposeful
• D) exaggerating

Identify the impacts and consequences of modernity as described by sociologists like Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman.

Understand the role of information technology in modernity according to Manuel Castells.

Grasp the concept of risk societies and the management of risks in modernity.

Appreciate the debate between modernity and postmodernity in sociological thought.

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Definitions:

Economic Predictions

Forecasts about future economic conditions based on current and historical data analysis.

Overestimating Knowledge

The tendency to believe one knows more about a subject or topic than one actually does.

Retention of Material

The ability to remember and recall information, skills, or knowledge over time after initial learning has taken place.

Hindsight Bias

The inclination to feel, after something has happened, that one would have foreseen or anticipated the result.