{"identifier":"/us/usc/t34/s12101","title":34,"num":"\u00a7\u202f12101.","heading":"Definitions","text":"\u00a7\u202f12101.\nDefinitions\nUnless otherwise provided, for purposes of this part\u2014\n(1) the term \u201cindeterminate sentencing\u201d means a system by which\u2014\n(A) the court may impose a sentence of a range defined by statute; and\n(B) an administrative agency, generally the parole board, or the court, controls release within the statutory range;\n(2) the term \u201cpart 1 violent crime\u201d means murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault as reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for purposes of the Uniform Crime Reports; and\n(3) the term \u201cState\u201d means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t34/s12101.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t34/s12101","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f12101."},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"Unless otherwise provided, for purposes of this part\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s12101/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" the term \u201cindeterminate sentencing\u201d means a system by which\u2014"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t34/s12101/1/A","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(A)"},{"t":"content","text":" the court may impose a sentence of a range defined by statute; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t34/s12101/1/B","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(B)"},{"t":"content","text":" an administrative agency, generally the parole board, or the court, controls release within the statutory range;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s12101/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" the term \u201cpart 1 violent crime\u201d means murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault as reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for purposes of the Uniform Crime Reports; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t34/s12101/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" the term \u201cState\u201d means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}