41-1-404 - Sentencing. - Tennessee Statutes

41-1-404. Sentencing.

The general assembly finds that the following policy statements regarding the criminal justice system are of importance to the state correction system:

     (1)  Trial judges are encouraged to use alternatives to incarceration as long as the alternatives include requirements of reparation or victim compensation; and

     (2)  Trial judges shall be provided a presentence report with sufficient information to make a proper evaluation and disposition of a defendant.

[Acts 1983, ch. 467, § 4.]