Sentencing allows time for an offender to be punished and time for the community to help reduce crime. The corrections system would be nothing without sentencing. The objectives of punishment have changed the way sentences are determined in a positive way. The corrections system relies on the way sentencing is handled in order to maintain organization and respect from the public. The objectives of punishment in the United States have not always been established, but they continue to make positive impacts on the system as a whole.
The officers and management team should be held accountable for the actions that they did not take to help the victim. However, commanders wanted the numbers to decrease to show that implementing this system could reduce crimes. The crime should have reported properly and actions should have been taken. The commanders in the situation should make sure that officers understand the importance of protecting and serving their districts and helping citizens feel safe in their neighborhoods. Instead of staying in a darkened room, the commanders should be training their officers on how to combat this action and help actual reduce the crimes not cover them up.
There must be a punishment for the crime committed to deter it. According to the differential association theory “punishment, if certain, should be swift and proportionate to the crime to deter it.” (O’Grady 2010:70) That the punishment should fit the crime committed. Though, this could be seen as a great way to deter crime, it does not work as well. According to Fagan and Meares “…recent experiments have shown that among persons of color, especially those who are poor or reside in poor neighborhoods, punishment has produced iatrogenic or counterdeterrent effects.” (Fagan and Meares 2008:8)The punishment seems to be the more upset people in the community become and it results in the same crime happening in the communities and that once offenders come out of jail it has been proven that they are likely to commit crime again if, they were in jail for a short period of
Different sociologists have presented different theories and concepts to explain what drives a person to commit a crime, and research and statistics give us an idea of the type of crimes committed and the places that they’re most likely to occur. However, these statistics can prove to be misleading as not all crime is reported to or recorded by the police. This can be referred to as the ‘hidden figure’, and it differentiates between the official crime rate and the real rate. Despite this, they do prove to be worthwhile in the fact that they display trends and patterns of crime. Sociologists use three different methods to measure crime; each method provides us with particular information and as in all systems of data collecting, there are strengths and weaknesses to the method.
CAPS program has been a success. There is hope to fight crime and prevent crimes, only when citizens want to quality of life to live free of crimes and police are caring enough to keep their respective communities
The job of a law enforcement officer is not easy. He must make rational decisions using taught police tactics and his discretion. Modern law enforcement officers have become more proficient and effective to protect and fight against crime. However, the foundation of modern law enforcement operations, are based on early policing principles. In this paper, the writer will discuss how the historic development of law enforcement policing in the United States relates to the current relationship between law enforcement and race, ethnic groups, and social classes.
Differential associations do however provide an excellent basis and starting point to work from when doing individualistic case studies and work even better as an aid for police, detectives, and other government officials in their search to pinpoint future crimes with suspicion to a specific individual. Criminal acts occur for a wide variety of reasons, most of them spontaneous and unplanned and if social learning theory is to be applied, that would assume a discernible type of sociological algorithm, which cancels out the inartistic nature of everyday crime. In the case of gang crime though, it is clear the social learning theory is applicable, but perhaps not to individualistic, spontaneous crime. Social learning theory and differential association have proven to be empirically supported and are further emerging as one of the most efficient ways of determining new and better ways to approach contemporary crime over generations. More widely used by criminologists every day, social learning theories can be used to bring forth proven methods of rehabilitation and correctional treatments now that criminology myths and misrepresentative data is beginning to be disproven.
Prevailing Theories of Crime Control The prevailing theories of crime control are allowing police officers to have more authority and seek more help for the victim among the societies. The crime model itself states that if the police make an arrest and a prosecutor files criminal charges, then the accused individual should be presumed guilty because the fact-finding of police and prosecutors is highly reliable. With that being said crime is always going to be around. The crime model seeks more detention centers for suspects. The crime control model reflects conservative values to ensure that communities are safe and receive all the help necessary.
Investigating unsolved inci dents is an important task and still must be done, but criminal investigators should respond system atically to recurring crimes arising from the same problem. In order for criminal investigators to be more efficient and effective, they must gather infor mation about incidents and design an appropriate response based on the nature of the underlying conditions that cause the problem(s). A data-driven analytic approach, led and supported by investiga tors, would best position police
b. Thesis statement: Legislation should focus on education and prevention since both methods are more effective than incarceration for youth offenders. c. Main points: i. Current practices of treating youth offenders as adults are not effective. ii. Treating youth offenders at the community level with education is a more effective way to reduce violent crime.