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Case 10-1 Scott Is a 24-Year-Old High School Dropout

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Case 10-1 Scott is a 24-year-old high school dropout. He has been in and out of trouble with the law since he was a teenager, committing mostly public nuisance offenses such as disorderly conduct and public intoxication. His girlfriend just broke up with him because he had noambition in his life and she did not want totake care of him. She threw him out of her apartment. Scott just agreed toplead guilty for the crime of burglary after he broke intohis ex-girlfriend's car tosteal the change that she keeps in the cup-holder.
The prosecutor in the case expresses concern that Scott is headed down the wrong path and suggests a little prison time would shake him up. The defense attorney in the case believes that it is not necessary toimprison Scott for this offense. Even though the law states that Scott can serve up tofive years in a state prison for his offense, his attorney believes that prison resources are tooscarce and that Scott is an offender whoqualifies for a community- based sanction. This practice is known as:

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