The Influence of Gender, Race, Age, Academic Level
... eleven questions that they should assume that corporal punishment could be used legally. Results When asked whether “the United States should use corporal punishment, such as caning or whipping, on convicted criminals,” 18% strongly disagreed, 27% disagreed, 20% were uncertain, 24% agreed, and 12% s ...
... eleven questions that they should assume that corporal punishment could be used legally. Results When asked whether “the United States should use corporal punishment, such as caning or whipping, on convicted criminals,” 18% strongly disagreed, 27% disagreed, 20% were uncertain, 24% agreed, and 12% s ...
In the shadow of the prison gates: an institutional analysis of early
... decline in the late nineteenth century a modernizing project began to gather pace, which saw punishment re-cast primarily as a means of rehabilitating offenders (Allen 1981; Garland 1985). Over time this perspective grew in sophistication and exerted increasing influence over the administration of c ...
... decline in the late nineteenth century a modernizing project began to gather pace, which saw punishment re-cast primarily as a means of rehabilitating offenders (Allen 1981; Garland 1985). Over time this perspective grew in sophistication and exerted increasing influence over the administration of c ...
Indeterminate Confinement: Letting the Therapy Fit the Harm
... crime itself is further in the past, and community hostility--except for notorious crimes-is less likely to be an overriding consideration. Put in practical terms, the judge sentencing early in the process is more likely to ask himself how the community will react if the sentence is disproportionate ...
... crime itself is further in the past, and community hostility--except for notorious crimes-is less likely to be an overriding consideration. Put in practical terms, the judge sentencing early in the process is more likely to ask himself how the community will react if the sentence is disproportionate ...
The International Prisoner Transfer Program
... individual, such as the specifics of the criminal conduct in which the individual engaged or any continuing risks that the individual might pose. As a result, the home country often knows nothing about the person released into its midst. Consequently, it is unable to take precautionary steps to ensu ...
... individual, such as the specifics of the criminal conduct in which the individual engaged or any continuing risks that the individual might pose. As a result, the home country often knows nothing about the person released into its midst. Consequently, it is unable to take precautionary steps to ensu ...
FY2012 CJKTOS follow-up report - Center on Drug and Alcohol
... important to note that this cost under-represents the overall cost offset from prison-based treatment because it does not include the cost to incarcerate, employment, and community health service utilization costs. Thus, examining the reduction of nearly $1.5 million in victim costs from crime durin ...
... important to note that this cost under-represents the overall cost offset from prison-based treatment because it does not include the cost to incarcerate, employment, and community health service utilization costs. Thus, examining the reduction of nearly $1.5 million in victim costs from crime durin ...
Florida`s Truth in Sentencing Effectiveness on Recidivism
... participation in work or educational programs, and other time reductions to control prison crowding resulted in the early release of prisoners (Ditton & Wilson, 1999). These policies permitted officials to individualize the amount of punishment or leniency an offender received and provided means to ...
... participation in work or educational programs, and other time reductions to control prison crowding resulted in the early release of prisoners (Ditton & Wilson, 1999). These policies permitted officials to individualize the amount of punishment or leniency an offender received and provided means to ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IN PRISON? Harold Pollack
... relatively low-risk populations actually served, the currently-deployed model of drug courts is unlikely to notably reduce prison populations. A second, related pattern also hinders the effectiveness of these interventions. There is a systematic mismatch between sentencing practices and actual crim ...
... relatively low-risk populations actually served, the currently-deployed model of drug courts is unlikely to notably reduce prison populations. A second, related pattern also hinders the effectiveness of these interventions. There is a systematic mismatch between sentencing practices and actual crim ...
A Sign of Things to Come? Drug Policy Reforms in Arizona
... The movement toward treating, instead of incarcerating, lowlevel drug offenders can be attributed to fiscal concerns, changing views on drug use, and to a reaction to previous sentencing schemes. New laws in Arizona, California, and New York10—three states that have enacted dramatic drug policy refo ...
... The movement toward treating, instead of incarcerating, lowlevel drug offenders can be attributed to fiscal concerns, changing views on drug use, and to a reaction to previous sentencing schemes. New laws in Arizona, California, and New York10—three states that have enacted dramatic drug policy refo ...
Public Law 110–199 110th Congress An Act 122 STAT. 657
... health treatment, and substance abuse treatment for serious and violent offenders. This Act seeks to build upon the innovative and successful State reentry programs developed under the SVORI, which terminated after fiscal year 2005. (6) Between 1991 and 1999, the number of children with a parent in ...
... health treatment, and substance abuse treatment for serious and violent offenders. This Act seeks to build upon the innovative and successful State reentry programs developed under the SVORI, which terminated after fiscal year 2005. (6) Between 1991 and 1999, the number of children with a parent in ...
Methadone Maintenance Treatment and the Criminal Justice System
... those sentenced to short sentences of less than two years in confinement. Prisons at both the State and Federal levels typically house persons who have been convicted and sentenced to longer periods of confinement (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005). As entry points into the correctional system, ja ...
... those sentenced to short sentences of less than two years in confinement. Prisons at both the State and Federal levels typically house persons who have been convicted and sentenced to longer periods of confinement (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005). As entry points into the correctional system, ja ...
An Overview of Parole in Wyoming and
... the United States comprises five percent of the world’s population, it incarcerates twenty-five percent of the world’s prison and jail inmates.2 At the beginning of 2008, the United States held roughly 2.3 million people in prisons or other correctional facilities. The next closest country, China, w ...
... the United States comprises five percent of the world’s population, it incarcerates twenty-five percent of the world’s prison and jail inmates.2 At the beginning of 2008, the United States held roughly 2.3 million people in prisons or other correctional facilities. The next closest country, China, w ...
Chicago Report of Mayoral Caucus on Reentry
... But most Americans have typically paid little or no attention to people coming back from prison.5 At least 95 percent of all state prisoners will be released at some point.6 This year, our country’s prisons will release nearly 650,000 individuals, an increase from 170,000 in 1980.7 This number does ...
... But most Americans have typically paid little or no attention to people coming back from prison.5 At least 95 percent of all state prisoners will be released at some point.6 This year, our country’s prisons will release nearly 650,000 individuals, an increase from 170,000 in 1980.7 This number does ...
UMRTF Strategic Plan - Center for Court Innovation
... Mayor’s Office of the Criminal Justice Coordinator, convened the Upper Manhattan Reentry Task Force, based at the Harlem Community Justice Center. The Task Force seeks to achieve two goals: 1) To enhance public safety; and, 2) To reduce recidivism among parolees returning to the Upper Manhattan neig ...
... Mayor’s Office of the Criminal Justice Coordinator, convened the Upper Manhattan Reentry Task Force, based at the Harlem Community Justice Center. The Task Force seeks to achieve two goals: 1) To enhance public safety; and, 2) To reduce recidivism among parolees returning to the Upper Manhattan neig ...
report (text only) - RTF 259Kb - Opens in a new
... Reoffending has been a problem in Scotland for many years 15. Reconviction rates are the most widely used method of measuring reoffending. Rates have remained relatively static in Scotland over the past 13 years.6 In 1997/98, 32 per cent of offenders were reconvicted within one year. Reconviction ra ...
... Reoffending has been a problem in Scotland for many years 15. Reconviction rates are the most widely used method of measuring reoffending. Rates have remained relatively static in Scotland over the past 13 years.6 In 1997/98, 32 per cent of offenders were reconvicted within one year. Reconviction ra ...
A revolution in the way we manage offenders
... T2A commented extensively in your recent consultation on probation services on the need for the criminal justice system to address the distinct needs of young adults, if their offending behaviour is to be addressed effectively. There arguments are not repeated here, but T2A’s response to your previo ...
... T2A commented extensively in your recent consultation on probation services on the need for the criminal justice system to address the distinct needs of young adults, if their offending behaviour is to be addressed effectively. There arguments are not repeated here, but T2A’s response to your previo ...
THE BOP: Bureau of Prisons Issues
... and Security Designation Form in the BOP’s computerized prisoner management and tracking system (SENTRY), which produces a score that corresponds to a classification level. The DSCC also considers proximity to a prisoner’s legal residence (within 500 miles), population levels at prospective institut ...
... and Security Designation Form in the BOP’s computerized prisoner management and tracking system (SENTRY), which produces a score that corresponds to a classification level. The DSCC also considers proximity to a prisoner’s legal residence (within 500 miles), population levels at prospective institut ...
Community sentences since 2000: How they work – and why they
... England and Wales and Scotland). Again, private companies are the main providers. There is little evidence that any of these developments will reduce prisoner numbers overall, or help to divert people from prison, or avoid the associated costs and other harms of incarceration. In the case of some me ...
... England and Wales and Scotland). Again, private companies are the main providers. There is little evidence that any of these developments will reduce prisoner numbers overall, or help to divert people from prison, or avoid the associated costs and other harms of incarceration. In the case of some me ...
as a PDF
... the educational process. I truly believed that my college degree would define who I would be. Some time has passed since then, too much time, if you ask my original committee (however, that isn’t hardly possible since all but one of them have retired). But in the five years away from the academic cl ...
... the educational process. I truly believed that my college degree would define who I would be. Some time has passed since then, too much time, if you ask my original committee (however, that isn’t hardly possible since all but one of them have retired). But in the five years away from the academic cl ...
The Debt Penalty
... child support in the United States is around $100 billion (Patterson 2008). Laws regarding child support have become more punitive during the past few decades in response to rampant non-payment. However, many parents who owe child support are indigent and/or incarcerated and simply have no means to ...
... child support in the United States is around $100 billion (Patterson 2008). Laws regarding child support have become more punitive during the past few decades in response to rampant non-payment. However, many parents who owe child support are indigent and/or incarcerated and simply have no means to ...
Crime and Incarceration in the 1990s
... Incarceration and Crime in a Period of Rising Crime: 1984 - 1991 In order to explore the relationship between incarceration and crime in greater detail, we next examine the seven-year period 1984-91, just prior to the beginning of the decline in crime in the 1990s. The national trend is significant ...
... Incarceration and Crime in a Period of Rising Crime: 1984 - 1991 In order to explore the relationship between incarceration and crime in greater detail, we next examine the seven-year period 1984-91, just prior to the beginning of the decline in crime in the 1990s. The national trend is significant ...
Concern About Variation in Criminal Sentences
... courts. This resulted in each magistrate presiding over a majority of the courts at one time or another during a given year. The study pointed out that under this rotation system "it can reasonably be assumed that each magistrate handles practically the same classes of cases as those handled by his ...
... courts. This resulted in each magistrate presiding over a majority of the courts at one time or another during a given year. The study pointed out that under this rotation system "it can reasonably be assumed that each magistrate handles practically the same classes of cases as those handled by his ...
Criminal Justice Reform Strategy
... Transform the Prosecution Service into an independent, effective, transparent and accountable institution; Ensure full independence of the Legal Aid Service and ensure access to legal aid; Increase judicial independence and trust towards Judiciary; Improve conditions for inmates and reform the exist ...
... Transform the Prosecution Service into an independent, effective, transparent and accountable institution; Ensure full independence of the Legal Aid Service and ensure access to legal aid; Increase judicial independence and trust towards Judiciary; Improve conditions for inmates and reform the exist ...
The Historical Development of Criminology
... of the criminal, they have omitted to tell us what they understand by the word crime." 7 The positivist's rejection of the legal definition was based on the idea that for scientific purposes the concept of crime cannot be accepted as a legal category, since the factors which produce the legal defini ...
... of the criminal, they have omitted to tell us what they understand by the word crime." 7 The positivist's rejection of the legal definition was based on the idea that for scientific purposes the concept of crime cannot be accepted as a legal category, since the factors which produce the legal defini ...
- Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository
... Parliament to grant judges authority to bypass the petition and pardon process and sentence certain types of offenders directly to transportation. In 1718, the Parliament obliged. The Transportation Act of 1718 allowed judges to sentence offenders directly to transportation and slightly expanded the ...
... Parliament to grant judges authority to bypass the petition and pardon process and sentence certain types of offenders directly to transportation. In 1718, the Parliament obliged. The Transportation Act of 1718 allowed judges to sentence offenders directly to transportation and slightly expanded the ...
Proposition 47 - McGeorge School of Law
... Proposition 47 also amends section 11357 of the Health and Safety Code, which is the marijuana counterpart of section 11350 of the Health and Safety Code as discussed above. Additionally, the initiative makes some format changes so that the sections will read with parallel structure should the init ...
... Proposition 47 also amends section 11357 of the Health and Safety Code, which is the marijuana counterpart of section 11350 of the Health and Safety Code as discussed above. Additionally, the initiative makes some format changes so that the sections will read with parallel structure should the init ...
Prison reform
Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, establish a more effective penal system, or implement alternatives to incarceration.