I do believe the prison had a deterrent effect. Various elements could influence the efficiency of the deterrent effect of prison, such as the quality of prison life, the enhancement laws, the juvenile crime and the ability of criminals was examined to substitute between different crimes. The text stated “Sentence enhancement laws abruptly alter prison sentences for specific types of crime” (Winter, 2008). For example, the person who committed robbery was given a 5 year prison sentence. Then the law was changed and added another 3 year prison sentence. It did have an impact on the crime rate. The study in 1999 by Kessler and Levitt showed that the enhanced prison sentence with the added years in prison in California led to the decline of the
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The racial profiling was utilized as a technique by police because they believe race could “be used as a predictor of criminal behavior (Winter, 2008). The police may pay much attention to particular racial groups based on the statistics. Sometimes, the more attentions was not justified. As we all known, there was some discrimination in regards to race on the judicial system. The police would add more attention to the groups that they believed were more likely to commit crimes when searching. We supposed that the police believed the group A was more likely to commit crime than the group B, and the police always give priority attention to group A when conducting search. Therefore, the crime rate of group A would be decreased because they knew they had high possibilities to be searched preferentially when there were crimes. On the contrary, the crime rate of group B would be increased because they realized they had less possibilities to be inquired and punished. This led to the less deterrent effect on group B. Therefore, we could understand why some races had the higher rate to be sentenced criminal penalty, while some did not. The 9.11 terror event had a very negative effect on the American society, leading to the panic among the U.S. citizens. After this affair, the Arab-Americans were more likely to be targeted by the criminal justice system. They were believed to be more likely to commit crimes, especially terrorist crimes, due to the influence of the 9.11
The racial profiling was utilized as a technique by police because they believe race could “be used as a predictor of criminal behavior (Winter, 2008). The police may pay much attention to particular racial groups based on the statistics. Sometimes, the more attentions was not justified. As we all known, there was some discrimination in regards to race on the judicial system. The police would add more attention to the groups that they believed were more likely to commit crimes when searching. We supposed that the police believed the group A was more likely to commit crime than the group B, and the police always give priority attention to group A when conducting search. Therefore, the crime rate of group A would be decreased because they knew they had high possibilities to be searched preferentially when there were crimes. On the contrary, the crime rate of group B would be increased because they realized they had less possibilities to be inquired and punished. This led to the less deterrent effect on group B. Therefore, we could understand why some races had the higher rate to be sentenced criminal penalty, while some did not. The 9.11 terror event had a very negative effect on the American society, leading to the panic among the U.S. citizens. After this affair, the Arab-Americans were more likely to be targeted by the criminal justice system. They were believed to be more likely to commit crimes, especially terrorist crimes, due to the influence of the 9.11