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The Sentencing and Correctional Process Attention:

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For this discussion topic, you must complete and respond to the following.

• Examine presentence investigation requirements and describe the purpose behind the practice.
• Describe the information presentence investigators present to the court prior to the judge determining a sentence.
• Make a determination as to whether presentence investigations promote harsher penalties or if the information presented to the court serves to mitigate the sentence.
• Find a state that no longer uses presentence investigations and determine why the courts eliminated the practice.

Please support your thoughts.