The primary advantage of sentencing guidelines is that they reduce in sentencing, while allowing more flexibility than mandatory sentences.
a. disparity
b. severity
c. leniency
d. appeals

Disparity

Explanation:

The United States congress, in 1984, enacted the sentencing reform act, a crime control act that would help address the issue of crime in the society at that time. There were certain patterns of undue leniency applied to some grave offenses and the sentencing act was put in place to correct that and also reduce unwarranted disparity in such cases. The issue of unwarranted sentencing disparity was seen because the federal court system did not have a systematic and comprehensive approach to sentencing.

answer: fact: italy has over 300 islands ranging from extremely small uninhabited islands to the huge island of sicily.

explanation:

opinion: italy has way to many islands

answer:

d. because dr. laguardia selected a widely used measure, his study generalizes to has strong external validity. external validity has limited external validity. other applications of this measure.

the widely used measure that he applied to his experiment was the benton facial recognition test. it employed on to football players and as result, only players who suffered brain concussions did not pas this test. and although it has an external validity, it is limited because it isn't general to apply to other population.