Impact Section 3. As the severity of the primary offense increases, the proportion of offenders sentenced to state prison increases, and the length of the prison sentence increases. See the Appendix in this report for the Severity Ranking Chart.
Violent offenders represent the largest proportion of offenders sentenced to prison.
Over half of all scoresheets included points from additional offenses. Additional offenses made greater contributions to total points when the primary offense was burglary. Prior record contributions to total points were greatest for primary offenses of burglary, property crimes, and drug offenses. As expected, offense type was strongly related to prison sentence length, with those sentenced for second degree murder, homicide, attempted capital sexual battery, life sexual battery, and third degree murder receiving the longest sentences. The average community control sentence is 17.6 months, while probation sentences average nearly 29 months.