CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Environmental Design, Execution By Firing Squad, Mandatory Sentencing
14 Mar 2013
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Assumes that offenders will be deterred by stiffer sentences and harsher terms of imprisonment. Us has three strikes rules, mandatory sentencing guidelines, and war on drugs. Us has the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world (743 per 100000) - about six times the rate in canada (117 per 100000) Prison population in the us doubled between 1992 and 2007. Us continues to have a much higher rate of violent crime than canada. Any decline in the overall crime rate in the us has been mirrored in canada. Louisiana in top five in the us for executions; second highest murder rate and fifth highest crime rate. Louisiana passed 1995 amendment authorizing death penalty for child rpae; no effect on reducing indictments for (or counts of) child rape. Rational choice theorists argue that would-be offenders weigh possible benefits of criminal activities against possible costs.
