CJS 221 State Sentencing Guidelines Presentation

State Sentencing Guidelines Presentation Resources: The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America Research your state's efforts to reform sentencing guidelines over the past 20 years.

Analyze the effects of such efforts on the duration of average sentences served for various serious crimes along racial and ethnic lines. Create a 5- to 10-slide Microsoft¨ PowerPoint¨ presentation summarizing your findings. Format your presentation in accordance with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. CJS 221

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In the late 1980s New Jersey adopted many of the policies that enforced zero tolerance for drug crimes. These...ew Jersey began a sentencing reform that was aimed at alternative methods of punishment and sentencing.