Federal Indeterminate Sentence

The Indeterminate Sentence at the Crossroads

Despite years of experimentation and hope, many authorities of penology now conclude that few rehabilitative programs reduce recidivism.' However, it has been stated that "lower rates of recidivism are associated with either very short sentences . . . or long sentences." 2 The only method that can tailor length of sentence to individual needs is the indeterminate sentence. By carefully evaluati...

Use of the Indeterminate Sentence in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation

The Neuronal Correlates of Indeterminate Sentence Comprehension: An fMRI Study

Sentences such as The author started the book are indeterminate because they do not make explicit what the subject (the author) started doing with the object (the book). In principle, indeterminate sentences allow for an infinite number of interpretations. One theory, however, assumes that these sentences are resolved by semanticcoercion, a linguistic process that forces the noun book to be int...

Indeterminate Truth

Can a truth-bearer be true but not determinately so? On the enduringly popular standard supervaluational conception of indeterminacy, under which the principle of bivalence is invalid, the answer is a straightforward No. On such a conception, truth just is determinate truth—truth in all admissible interpretations. For that reason, a more interesting question is: can a truth-bearer be true but n...

Indeterminate colitis.

Indeterminate colitis (IC) originally referred to those 10-15% of cases of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which there was difficulty distinguishing between ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) in the colectomy specimen. However, IC is increasingly used when a definitive diagnosis of UC or CD cannot be made at colonoscopy, in colonic biopsies or at colectomy. The diagnostic diff...