The overall purpose and meaning of this article is to send the message that police officers can play a unique part in disrupting the disorder process. If police officers focus on less serious crime and disorder of a neighborhood then serious crimes like felonies will not be able to surface as much. This is because the community will participate more and become more social, and they will develop their own set of rules. A main section of this article that I want to point out is the idea that foot patrol decreases crime rate. In the article it states that police officers didn’t like the idea of foot patrol too much but because they did it relationships with the community was formed and people were less afraid to go outside.
These statistics add credibility to the link between drugs and robbery (Chris E McGoey). Having these statistics helps us better evaluate the pros and cons of this Bill. Since the Bill proposes to double the sentence of those arrested for armed robbery, it is important that we look at the additional cost for the taxpayer. The cost of housing an offender for one year can run from $2300 to $3200 depending on where they are being housed. Medical expenses cannot be pre-determined, but usually can be calculated at about
* The field is ripe for conducting larger-scale randomized trials. Key Trends in the Current Correctional Education Landscape * The 2008 recession led to an overall 6 percent decrease in states' correctional education budgets between fiscal years 2009 and 2012, but it had a much larger impact on states with large and medium prison populations (a 20 and 10 percent decrease, respectively). * Most states reported using computers in correctional education, but student access to the Internet or Internet-based instruction was limited in most states. * Of the states planning to implement the more rigorous 2014 General Education Development (GED) exam that relies on computer-based testing, there are concerns about teachers being adequately prepared to teach it and about the time it may take to prepare students for it, as well as about the negative effect on GED completion rates. Medium and large states are expected to encounter more challenges.
3.) What does projecting our youths population do for our justice system? In the year 1995 is when people began too project the next centuries juvenile crime rates. James Wilson figured that the nation at the end of the decade in the 1990's that there would be roughly one million more teenagers in the delinquent ages of fourteen to seventeen than there was in 1995. This raised his eyebrows and he started too put together numbers to figure up the effect of what this many more teenagers would have on the society.
Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date of submission: 3 Strikes Law Three Strikes Laws are acts that are passed by state governments in the U.S. It gives mandates to state courts to give life sentences to persons convicted of three or more severe criminal offenses. These acts became popular in the 1990s. Its intent is to ensure that there are longer prison sentences and bigger punishment for those committing felonies and those formerly convicted of severe offenses. It is aimed at the criminals who are not deterred by imprisonment and those who are not open to rehabilitation efforts.
Between the mid 1950s and the 1970s the number of prisoner in England and Wales had doubled, then between the 1970s and the 1990s the number had increased by an additional 20000. This result confused many as the official crime rate was said to have decreased. Garland in the book the culture of control argued that the increased number of those imprisoned was due to the culture of control which was the governments response to social insecurities and the governments want to improve public opinion. (Garside (2010)) The Green paper breaking the cycle was released in 2010 proposing a series of policies which had a main focus being on the concept of restorative justice as opposed to past policies which purely focused on punishing the offender rather than treating them, which were influenced by the pubic iconicisation of victims which meant a higher fear of crimes heightened by
A startling 293 murders were reported in 2010 in Los Angeles and 32 murders for Long Beach and yet it is even more shocking to know there are far more forcible rapes that occur in both of these areas. I would think that population size, diversity and other environmental factors have something to do with the differences in these numbers. The murder rate seems to have decreased while forcible rape increased in both cities, with an additional 630 incidents in Los Angeles and an additional 102 incidents in Long Beach. On the other hand, for the past several years, crime rates have dropped continually. The Los Angeles Police Department reported in 2008 that
The penalties for drunk driving need to be a lot harsher than they are currently. DUI offenders should suffer the third tier penalties for the first offense, regardless of the social status (Rich 2012). Most of these people are only charged with level one, on a scale of one to five, but many never see the minimum twenty-four hour jail time. There are many times I see firsthand drunk drivers get no bond and a custody release. This means that any sober legally licensed driver over the age of eighteen can sign the offenders out.
Dealing with Geriatric Inmates Abstract Elderly or geriatric prisoners are creating problems for correctional facilities, legislators, as well as state and federal budgets. From 1992 to January 1, 2001, the number of inmates age 50 and older jumped from 41, 586 to 113,358 (Camp & Camp, 1992 – 2001). The aging inmate population in the United States’ federal and state prisons is creating a heavy burden on government resources and budgets. Governments are paying more money to maintain the health and treatment of elderly individuals as opposed to younger inmates. This steady rise in the age of inmates incarcerated throughout the United States can be traced back to an increasing crime rate through the 1980’s and early 1990’s and the “get tough” response by legislating bodies and law enforcement.
Two hundred and fifty thousand juveniles are tried and sentenced for their crimes as adults every year in the United States. It would seem that courtrooms are taking these juvenile cases with the significance they deserve but with only half of the average yearly rate of juvenile arrests being tried in an adult courtroom, questions about how seriously public safety has come into consideration in the United States. Juveniles who commit violent crimes should always be tried as adults in the courtroom. These numbers have had an extensive impact in the United State’s juvenile judicial system. Semple and Woody (2011) stated that with a rise of violent crimes committed by juveniles, 49 out of the 50 states transferred their juvenile offenders