JUS 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Are You Experienced, Signify, Money Laundering
Document Summary
Process by which the government seizes cash, cars, homes, and other property that it claims are the result of criminal activity. Incarceration has become the normal experience for the nation"s young minority male population: abandonment in criminal justice of the constitutional values that gave reason to the founding of the nation. Corruption of the criminal justice system: corruption by fbi, bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms (atf), local police departments: Violating civil rights, beatings and brutality, racial profiling, extortion, planting evidence, 2. 9% of the us adult population 1 in every 34 was incarcerated, on probation or on parole. Push down/pop up effect: crop eradication burning of marijuana, coca, poppies. Replacement and incapacitation effects: replacement effect. If no new person replaces the activity of the incarcerated person than incarceration can be successful. If the incarcerated person would have performed more of the criminal act if not for incapacitation than incarceration is successful (ex: burglary)
