CRM/LAW C106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Misdemeanor
17 Dec 2018
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Focus on state prisons, federal prisons, and local jails. Rate increased historically and internationally unprecedented levels: trends in state prison population. 57% of total incarcerated population in 2012. Many serving time for felony convictions and parolees reincarcerated for violating parole. Violent offenses, property offenses, and drug offenses (most: trends in federal prison population. Federal crimes such as robbery, fraud, dugs, weapons, and immigration: trends in jail population. Hold those who have been arrested, have refused or unable to pay bail, and are awaiting trial. Hold misdemeanor offenses and those sentenced less than a year. Link between crime and growth of penal population is neither immediate nor direct. Growth of incarceration has two main causes: level of crime in society and policy response to crime. New policies such as three strikes, truth in sentencing, and laws mandating life without parole: trends in crime.
