Incapacitation

The four main goals of the criminal justice system are incapacitation, deterrence, retribution and rehabilitation (Greene & Heilbrun, 2014). As one might imagine, the rehabilitative process for those undergoing correctional intervention must be approached differently for adults and for juveniles. Juveniles who are found guilty of a crime are referred to as adjudicated delinquents. The goal of the criminal justice system in regards to adjudicated delinquents is to reduce the risk of future…

From early in my childhood, every toy and electronic device in our house was a target for creative ‘re-construction’, holding each piece up with a probing ‘why’. As I grew older, ‘why’ became a need to fix, build and reconceptualize and so the path toward medicine was a natural progression. Years later, my facscination in podiatry emerged through formal and informal study; recognizing a medical universality about the specific region of the foot and ankle. In incorporating a range of…

When most people think about the concept of state sponsored corrections, the first thing that usually comes to mind is jails and prisons. The next though may very well be that the jails and prisons are where the state puts people, who have committed crimes, to punish the offender and protect society. These thoughts and ideas are all correct in some ways. What most people do not know is that a form of state sponsored corrections has been in existence since the time of Hammurabi in the 18th…

Incapacitation is used as a means to protect society from the individual. In the case of Leonardo who was charged with drug trafficking he would be incapacitated so he could not sell any more drugs. Specific deterrence means prison will convince the individual…

from Pennsylvania State University’s Justice Center for Research have partnered with RTI International in order to evaluate the effects of programs and services aimed at the cognitive transformation of former prisoners. These services include incapacitation, which refers to imprisonment, effectively separating the prisoner from society, Specific deterrence, which refers to restrictions placed upon an offender in order to prevent further crime, and rehabilitation, which refers to addressing and…

What does the future hold for the criminal justice system? For some the answer is that nothing will change. The though is that the prisons will continue to be overcrowded, there will continue to be a decrease in management as well as no substantial change in leadership and that there will be an influx of younger, more violent offenders entering the system. The criminal justice is in need of overhaul. This is true of the system from the aspect of the victim to the offender to the officers…

Assuming that people are rational beings, it’s understandable that the choice to offend outweighed the cost of committing a crime (Beccaria, 1764). It is fair to presume that the offender hasn’t fully bought into the social contract. Rather than punishing offenders for their criminal acts, it’s essential to recognize the character has led them to offend. Rehabilitation ought to be used in an attempt to, “prevent the criminal from doing further injury to society,” (Beccaria, 1764) by being…

through Robert Hansers book on corrections we see the aspects of confinement that are unique in female inmates, particularly regarding issues with female prisoners being mothers. In the film, you see the incapacitation theory used as punishment when inmates behave out of order. Incapacitation deprives offenders of their liberty and removes them from society with the intent of ensuring that society can’t be further victimized during their term of incarceration. In the film we the…

Criminal justice can be traced back throughout history. Through research of the Middle Ages it has been discovered that there was even a sort of criminal justice system back during this time period (Siegel, Worrall 2016 p. 88). Through the evolution of the human race; there has also bene an evolution in crime. With this the criminal justice system has had to evolve to become a deterrent and a judge for the society issues at hand. Throughout time the criminal justice field of work has had to…

When I think of punishment, does society have the right to punish? There are various theories that have been developed as to why society chooses to inflict punishment upon criminals. The developed theories are deterrence, retribution, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and restoration. In today’s twenty-first century criminal justice system, the term punishment is sometimes associated with things that are painful. For example, we refer to a “punishing work schedule” and the term punishment is very…