Mandatory sentences

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003420
- info:lc/authorities/sh94003420
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh94003420#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Mandatory sentences--Law and legislation
Broader Terms
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Related Terms
- Determinate sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Indeterminate sentences
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Habitual felony offenders in Florida's prisons : a simulation of early release eligibility policy, 1992.
- found: Nat. crim. just. thes., 1993: p. 188.
- found: Williams, V.L. Dictionary of American penology, 1996: p. 147 (Determinate sentencing; to be distinguished from mandatory sentencing, in which sentences for particular crimes, from which a judge may not deviate)
- found: NCJRS online thesaurus, Apr. 5, 2005 (Specific terms of imprisonment, automatically applied upon conviction, not subject to modification by judge or other official)
Change Notes
- 2005-05-06: new
- 2007-06-27: revised

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