Criminal Justice Trends Paper To aid in the future progress of corrections are being developed as a result of past and current trends. The issues and concerns surrounding the corrections component of the criminal justice system are overcrowded prisons and their decreasing budget. If these issues and concerns are not address, they will definitely disrupt the effectiveness and future operations of corrections. Restorative and community justice programs are options being considered for the future of corrections as administrators, legislators, and activists debate philosophies to address these issues and concerns resulting from past and current trends. In the past, the national political climate favored the get tougher approach against crime
The three strikes law was implemented in 1993, it was created to act as a strong deterrent as well as to identify and incarcerate habitual offenders by enforcing minimum sentence lengths. The advocates of the law propose that it keeps violent and serious criminals behind bars therefore reducing crime rate. Those opposed suggest it overfills our prisons with aging criminals that eventually hamstring our economy. Overall I believe the three strikes law does more good than harm, and Ill examine articles that go deeper into these matters. According to Eugene H. Methvin, a large portion of violent crime can be prevented with an effective strategy of identifying and incarcerating the individual, keeping him/her off the streets; saving society much
To issue punishment to, or obtaining retribution from those who have committed serious crimes. 3. To make it less likely that those who serve a prison sentence will commit crimes after their release. The increasing focus on #3, or the rehabilitation of criminals has led some prisons to be formally renamed to correctional institutions. Today, this should be the primary goal of all prisons.
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It has reduced state government costs, and reduced overcrowding prisons. Nonviolent offenders, can be punished in the community rather than in prison. It is in the community where they can make a difference, and at the same time be punished for their crimes. Reducing recidivism rates is a serious concern for corrections. If recidivism rates are not reduce, corrections will only grow because they are constantly taking on the same offenders.
The Due Process is mainly focused on the offender’s rights. If our government had to keep using the Due Process that means it would make the case much longer, as well as much more complicated to find the truth. The Crime Control Model makes cases easier by just saying, “He or she is innocent of the crime until proven guilty.” If you take a minute to think about how our government is doing its job, you will soon realize that the more crimes committed using the Due Process would take ages to solve. On the other hand The Crime Control Model takes the matters into their own hands and puts a pause on each crime by needing more information to prove that our offender in innocent but for now they are guilty. This is also known as the assembly line.
The American Prison System The fear of going to prison strikes fear in some and in others, it is an opportunity for rehabilitation and a chance to reflect. The magnitude of punishment is currently dependent on the location of the crime and trial as well as the prison where the offender is sent for their punishment. The privatization of the prison system and the lack of efficient and effective punishments through out the United State’s prison systems have left our prisons overpopulated, under funded and mismanaged. Creating standard guidelines throughout both public and private prisons, as well as making uniform punishments that fit their crimes, will make a transfer to a private prison no different than a stay in a publicly funded prison.
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His failings include the real value of imprisonment, the false hood of the risk of being raped or murdered; the simple reality that the author fails to see is that violence promotes more violence. As humans we need to stop the violence at all cost, in our schools, in our work place, etc. Flogging or horse-whipping publicly will not do that. We as human beings need not to revert back to Puritan times as Jacoby suggest, but to find answer to control the overcrowding we have in our prison today and to help those that are coming out of the prisons to make sure they stay