Jeremy Gumerove 4 26 2012 Outline Three aspects to change What o Get rid of death penalty Why is it failing Failing to deter not stopping other murders from occurring o South has highest murder rate and most death row executions o http www deathpenaltyinfo org documents FactSheet pdf Improvements Page 3 Change to life without parole and restitution What o More in 4 than 10 offenders return within 3 years of their release yet too much money is spent on jail o States spend more than 50 billion on corrections Why is it failing Not effective prison stays A state s recidivism rate is the product of numerous variables and valid interstate assessments require careful analysis of the underlying conditions affecting each state therefore readers are advised to use caution when comparing recidivism rates across states and should focus on differences within states over time and probe for reasons why one state s recidivism rate might be higher than its neighbors rather than make judgments about the performance of its corrections agencies based on this single indicator http www pewpublicsafety org research reports state of recidivism 85899377338 Improvements Bottom of page in source What o Policing in schools Why is it failing Causing disruption to academics and mental harm to students The increase in the presence of law enforcement in schools especially in the form of school resource officers SROs has coincided with increases in referrals to the justice system especially for minor offenses like disorderly conduct This is causing lasting harm to youth as arrests and referrals to the juvenile justice system disrupt the educational process and can lead to suspension expulsion or other alienation from school All of these negative effects set youth on a track to drop out of school and put them at greater risk of becoming involved in the justice system later on all at tremendous costs for taxpayers aswell the youth themselves and their communities http www justicepolicy org uploads justicepolicy documents educationunderarrest executivesummary pdf Less presence of officials in schools Security guards have actually led to an increase in confrontment and fights in school not a decrease o but security guards in schools may actually lead to more disorder Improvements Three aspects to keep What o Youth sentencing rather than trying them as adults Why is it good Less re offending rate http web ebscohost com ehost pdfviewer pdfviewer sid 6d9c2907 86c5 4060 b724 4cf8d9559a78 40sessionmgr13 vid 4 hid 10 Mason C A Chapman D A Shau C Simons J 2003 Impacting Re Arrest Rates Among Youth Sentenced in Adult Court An Epidemiology Examination of the Juvenile Sentencing Advocacy Project Journal Of Clinical Child Adolescent Psychology 32 2 205 What o Insanity sentencing Why is it good Some suspects are criminally insane and jail will not help them heal they need psychiatric help They can receive help and parole that can assimilate them back into the real world as they end the near of the sentencing Suicide prevention Over 50 of jail suicides are committed within the first 24 hours in jail More than 95 of those who commit suicide in correctional facilities have a treatable psychiatric illness What o Probation and parole Why is it good o If we don t put them in psychiatric wards they can die due to their illness http www sentencingproject org doc publications sl mentallyilloffenders pdf Lowers the likeliness to offend again The probation redicivism rate of 15 percent is substansially below that of other programs o http www jstor org stable 1141760 seq 9 o Frank R Scarpitti and Richard M Stephenson The Journal of Criminal Law Criminology and Police Science Vol 59 No 3 Sep 1968 pp 361 369 o by returning high risk boys to the court for further disposition probation may increase its chances of non recidivism among boys who complete treatment
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