SOC 12 Study Guide - Final Guide: Public Health, Greater Media, Rape Crisis Center
31 Oct 2018
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To reduce crime, must address structural and cultural roots. New criminals replace cured criminals unless we address the roots of the problem. Get tough approach has had a small impact on crime rate at cost of billions of dollars. Release of 700k ex-prisoners / year into home communities. Resulting prospect of additional crimes committed by former prisoners. Generation of children raised with one parent incarcerated. We don"t just try to cure diseases, we try to prevent them. Identify the social and other causes of disease so we can target the causes. Us approach to crime does not follow this strategy. Double prison cells, would have to build 1,500 more prisons a t. mil each = bill + interest. k per prisoner per year = bill/year to house new prisoners. Double police to double output = bill. Total > bill in immediate + annual to go from 1. 5% ending in prison to 3% ending in prison.
