During the late 1960s and early 1970s, an unusual political coalition developed between liberals and conservatives. Both sides found considerable fault in existing sentencing practices. Although their reasons reflected fundamentally different concerns, liberals and conservatives defined the problem in similar terms: The criminal laws permitted too much latitude in sentencing, providing judges with little or no guidance on how to determine the proper sentence for each individual case.
-Adherents of the due process model were concerned about a
A) lack of fairness in sentencing.
B) lack of harshness in sentencing.
C) failure to keep offenders in prison long enough.
D) failure to release offenders from prison soon enough.
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