PSCI 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Gun Control, Police Brutality
25 Jan 2017
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Providing the national security in the us. Policing is a state and local government business. Fighting crime is a valence issue: people don"t disagree with the goal, just differ in confidence and how to go about it, if this is the right policy, law enforcement at a valence issue. Sewage system that work, snow plowing, crime fighting. What is the best policy to use: what is the source for crime, is criminal behavior an individual responsibility or a response to the environmental conditions. People responded to individual responsibility is cause of crime. As a result, developments through get touch legislation. Responding to hunger, behavior in bad neighborhood. Policies relate to this in anti-poverty program. Causes of crime and policy strategies: individual responsibility or response to the environmental conditions, get tough policies and consequences. States passed 3 strikes, committing 3 crimes and get a longer punishment.
