Deterrence

years, the precarious way it rests on the ever-growing precipitous cliff of nuclear war cannot be overlooked. A major flaw of the deterrence theory is the the assumption that leaders of countries will act in a rational manner- considering the consequences of their actions on their citizens and citizens of other countries. Jennifer Bradley states that “As simple as deterrence is to define, its actual practice is far more complicated, having many potential pitfalls for failure, essentially because…

media, it seems that criminals are not afraid of the death penalty and proceed with their crimes. “Deterrence works by discouraging other people who observe how others are punished from committing their own crimes” (Iuliano, 1382). In other words, a person who knows the punishment of a murder will be less likely to commit a murder than a person who does not know the outcome of that crime. The deterrence effect will eventually be accepted nationwide if studies prove that the death penalty…

grant to the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) in 2011 with the expectations that the KCPD would implement innovative methods for reducing crime in this article titled Kansas City, Missouri Smart Policing Initiative From Foot Patrol to Focused Deterrence, Novak, Fox, Carr, McHale, and White (2015) provide a review of the strategies that the KCPD implemented with the funding that was provided over a four year period. We will examine the two deterrent strategies implemented in this experiment…

different goals that the criminal justice system has are deterrence and rehabilitation/reintegration. There are two types of deterrence in criminal justice. The first is general deterrence, where criminal justice exemplifies what happens to people that do commit a crime, which the crime can be specific or general. In fear of being subjected to the same punishment(s), people would deter themselves away from committing that crime. Specific deterrence focuses on a specific criminal, giving them a…

point is for every crime there is a difference in punishment. The differences of the punishments are called the five goals of criminal sentencing, each of them being important and useful in different ways. They list as; Retribution, incapacitation, deterrence, rehabilitation, and restoration. The first one that we come across is retribution in the old days we as a society might have referred to retribution as the old saying “an eye for an eye.” When looking at retribution we are looking at the…

Punishment Goals Paper By Whitney Burgett There are two punishment goals I decided to write about after learning about them in week three’s reading materials, one of those being Incapacitation and the other being Deterrence. The first one I would like to discuss is Incapacitation. Incapacitate means you are not capable of doing the things you would normally do or choose to do. Incapacitation is one out of several forms of punishment that can be handed down from the court system. The…

theory. These are specific deterrence, general deterrence, reform and incapacitation. The Bradford Riots produced great social harm. For the sake of the community, it is crucial that a riot of the magnitude that occurred does not happen again. In its fragile state, it is hard to imagine how much worse it can get if more businesses are destroyed and the economy further worsens. The unemployment rate is already staggering, (Look up what paper cited it to be). General deterrence is necessary to…

The various theories of punishment and the penalty such as deterrence, retribution and restorative justice are all approaches to criminal justice. They all are justified using different ethical theories like utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics and feminist ethics. Deterrence is concerned with ‘discouraging people especially criminals from committing the crime.’ It means that it prevents other people from doing crimes during their imprisonment and stops them from during that in…

In this paper, I will be discussing the different ways in which juveniles are transferred into the adult criminal court, and the risks and benefits of each method of transfer. In addition, the mechanisms used to explain the effectiveness of transfer policies will be examined. Finally, I will discuss why transfer policies regarding juvenile offenders should be modified. Over the past couple decades there has been a significant expansion in the allowance of transferring of juveniles to adult…

of them are suicides and an additional 74,000 people are injured (Swanson, McGinity, Fazel, and Mays 366). Ways to reduce gun violence is imperative to keep the population safe. Increasing background checks, increasing police efforts by focused deterrence, and increasing psychological screenings are…