Please help provide a few considerations/examples which piqued your interest; that is, what did you find surprising? Your response can range anywhere on the spectrum from being reassured with the material you found or perhaps found yourself shocked to discover.

What is your position on the sentencing grid and guidelines with respect to the multitude of considerations factored into a sentence being meted out to a defendant convicted of one or more crimes?

Be sure to tie-in reference material found in Chapter 3 from the in-class Corrections textbook and/or relevant outside resources

Reference Link :

https://www.mass.gov/law-library/massachusetts-sentencing-guidelines

Sentencing Guidelines Grid.pdf

Advisory Sentencing Guidelines Massachusetts Sentencing Commission.pdf

Title:Corrections in the 21st Century

Author:Frank Schmalleger, John Smykla

Edition: 9th

Year: 2021

Publisher: McGraw Hill

ISBN13:9781260805253