PPD 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Working Poor, Medicalization, Community Policing

• School: USC
• Department: Policy, Planning, and Development
• Course: PPD 225
• Professor: Glasgow Lori

Document Summary

Criminals are rational and will make decisions based on maximizing utility. Cost/benefit ratio- cost of committing crime must be greater than benefit. Choose best option- the option that gives the best policy alternative with the least cost: 3 precursors for deterrence to be effective goal. Costly punishment- every time: the consequences are uncertain, there have to be better chances that they"ll be caught. Punishment must occur soon following commission of crime. Reactive vs proactive police behaviors: reactive, enforcing laws, responding to calls for service, proactive, community policing, broken window strategy. People become vigilant on what"s going on around: registries, zero tolerance for particular crimes. More influences on crime control legislation: guns, contextual goals. 2nd amendment: drugs, courts, conflicting values. Due process vs. fighting crime: plea bargaining, mandatory sentences, recidivism, committing the same crime over and over again, parole and probation, capital punishment.