Example Of Tertiary Prevention

Tertiary prevention focuses on the offender after crime has happen, with the main focus being on deterrence and rehabilitation to prevent from re-offending. Tertiary prevention reduces the recidivism rate and insures that appropriate steps are taken so that the victim is not re-victimized. In the United States the primary form of tertiary prevention is incapacitation. Tertiary prevention does not stop criminals from committing crimes after their release but protects the population from victimization of criminals. Specific deterrence is achieved by instilling fear into individuals that are being punished with the prevention of the individual from future violations of the law. There are two factors that determine the effectiveness of …show more content…
Incapacitation has two forms, collective incapacitation and selective incapacitation. Collective incapacitation means the mandatory same sentence for the crime regardless of the individual. With collective incapacitation the costs outweigh the benefits, meaning that you would have more people in prison raising the cost to hold them. Selective incapacitation focuses on high risk offenders that pose a risk to society. A good example of selective incapacitation is the three-strikes law; with this law the sentences increase as the person who is previously convicted of two or more serious crimes. There are four issues with this type of incapacitation as discussed in the book, predicted behavior is poor, the lost of incarceration with the offender’s career, and there are a constant level arrest, conviction, and incarceration. Lastly the non-representation of inmates giving them generalization based off of …show more content…
Home confinement has grown due to the modernization of technology and the growing issues with the prison system. This type of monitoring is used due to the rising crime rates and the overcrowding of prisons. There are two types of monitoring systems that are used; they are active, which keep track or individuals on a continuous basis and passive, which contacts the individual on a random basis to ensure whereabouts. There are advantages to electronic monitoring that include, an alternative to overcrowding prison, enhances the supervision of offenders, reduces the costs of monitoring offenders, provides and intermediate level of punishment, and a great alternative to incarceration letting the offender maintain the support of family and friends. The issues and concerns that surround electronic monitoring, such as increase of personnel costs for consistent monitoring, crimes still can happen by the offender while being monitor, the increase of individuals being monitor due to the extended reach, and the fear of it not only affecting the offender but over watching the whole