Identify and explain the five goals of sentencing.
Describe three models of sentencing and identify key decisionmakers in each model of sentencing.
Understand sentencing reforms which have limited judicial discretion in sentencing.
Explain the impact of key Supreme Court decisions on the constitutionality of capital punishment.
Identify changes in the rate of incarceration from 1970 to 2012 and know the contrast between the rates of incarceration for white and non-whites.
Discuss changes in drug sentencing policies within the past twenty years, including the crack cocaine disparity in federal law and the impact of drug sentencing on the minority community.
