Selective Incapacitation Essay

Auerhahn (1999) discusses the purpose of selective incapacitation and its progress with high rate offenders. She states in her article that selective incapacitation is supposed to reduce crime early in an offender career. Auerhahn (1999) believes that a lot of attention has been devoted to inquiry into the potential consequences of selective incapacitation. But the evidence has been overlooked by other researchers and politicians in this particular area. In this article, a study was shown that incapacitng offender that continue to commit crimes. Proposals for selective incapacitation shows that
Greenwood and Abrahamse (1982) states that selective incapacitation is another form of post-conviction preventive detention. The system back …show more content…
This certain framework adopted in studies on incapacitation effect which is simple. He states that imprisonment and the threat does not have an effect on individual’s criminal behavior but it does prevent them from criminal activity because they are incarcerated. This shows that predetermined criminal careers are not acted out due to incapacitation. A criminal act can be viewed as an instance in which the criminal perceived an opportunity and acted on this decision (Cook, 2012). An criminal may evaluate certain opportunities such as the likelihood of getting away with the crime, the payoff, the probability of the arrest and conviction, and the severity of the punishment if convicted. Certain opportunities may influence the distribution of criminal activity and also the overall volume of the crime. Cook (2012) states that victims often care less in protecting themselves and their property depending on the circumstances, but also on their perception of the likelihood of victimization. The threat of crime engender private self-protection activities, and these activates may turn prevent or discourage some criminal