Strengths And Weaknesses Of Pre-Sentence Investigation Reports



Strengths And Weaknesses Of Pre-Sentence Investigation Reports

Introduction

Today in criminal justice field, presence of appropriate documents is very important. There are different type of documents in the field of criminal justice among which presentenced investigation report or PSI since 1920s is considered as an important and central source of information to sentencing judges (Clear & Reisig, 2010). Being a student of criminology in this paper I am going to investigate certain strengths and weaknesses of presentenced investigation report. PSI is an investigation, usually conducted by a probation officer, which is designed to provide more information ...