CCJ-3011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Glasser'S Choice Theory, Juvenile Court, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate
20 Dec 2016
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Evaluate the seriousness of the expected punishment. Evaluate the immediate need for criminal gain. Assumes individuals have enough information to make rational choices about crime violating behavior. Incapacitation: locking up offenders in order to eliminate their risk of repeating their offense(s) Logic of incapacitation: keep law violator from re-offending. Indiscriminate policy of putting all felons in prison. Individualized sentences based on predictions about how many offenses particular offenders will commit in the future. Criminal career: a way to think about the length of time a person is actively committing crimes, career length, onset, desistance, frequency of offending. High-rate offenders: a person who commits many crimes over a long period of time. Conviction prior to the age of 16. Used hard drugs in past 2 years. Unemployed for more than 50% of past year. Problems with predicting chronic offenders and the use of selective incapacitation. We should punish people for what they have done, not what we think they will do.
