NCJ Number
89013
Journal
Journal of Offender Counseling Services and Rehabilitation Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Dated: (Fall 1982) Pages: 33-53
Date Published
1982
Length
21 pages
Annotation
The Continuum of Criminal Offenses was developed in order to examine how a segment of the 'law-abiding' community, who are believed to be representative of middle-class values and attitudes toward the law, would rate the seriousness of selected criminal offenses and how they would then handle offenders given the current alternatives available within the criminal justice system.
Abstract
Those crimes which were rated as being more serious were dealt with more sternly in terms of sentencing alternatives. Mixed findings, however, were produced when the same subjects were asked to rate selected criminal offense descriptions according to the seriousness of the criminal elements found within the offenses. (Author abstract)