CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Crime Prevention, Execution By Firing Squad, Mandatory Sentencing
22 Sep 2016
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Videos tupac: resurrection & the gangster next door. Assumes that offenders will be deterred by stiffer sentences and harsher terms of imprisonment. Us has three strikes rules, mandatory sentencing guidelines, and war on drugs. Us has the highest per capita incarceration rates in the world (743 per 100,000) about six times the rate in canada (117 per 100,000) Prison populations i the us doubled btwn 1992-2007: ~2. 3 million in 2007. Death penalty: thought to be the ultimate deterrent. 2010: 46 executions: 44 lethal injection, 1 electrocution, 1 firing squad. Us continues to have a much higher rate of violent crime than canada. Any decline in the overall crime rate in the us has been mirrored in canada. Louisiana in top five in us for executions; second highest murder rate and fifth highest crime rate. Louisiana passed 1995 amendment authorizing death penalty for child rape; no effect on reducing indictments for (or counts of) child rape.
