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CJBS 300 QUIZ 3 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

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Types of Incapacitation Correct Answer seeks to reduce crime by keeping offenders off the streets, without trying to deter or rehabilitate them. SELECTIVE INCAPACITATION- is designed to lock up only... the few high-rate offenders or career criminals. GROSS INCAPACITATION- involves locking up large numbers of offenders regardless of their criminal histories. Drug Law Correct Answer 1973 New York law(Rockefeller Drug Law) was designed to incapacitate and deter future use of drugs through mandatory and long prison terms, restrictions on plea bargaining. Three categories of offenders were major, middle-level and minor dealers. The law attempted to prevent the abuse of plea bargaining. Enormous slippage or leakage occurred between arrest and conviction that actually resulted in decreased indictment and conviction rates. The Law did not completely fail in its objectives, for those convicted, the rate of incarceration increased, however almost half evaded mandatory sentencing provisions. The impact of the Rockefeller Drug Law Correct Answer The real impact of the Rockefeller drug law was its role as a model for harsh sentencing laws across the country over the next four decades led to mass incarceration. During the past four years, there has been a change in public sentiment, there were forty one changes in policies in 24 states in the year 2012. Insanity Defense Correct Answer In one public opinion survey, 87% of respondents felt the insanity defense was a loophole and 40% called it a rich persons defense. The conservative response is to close the loophole and there are six ways to do so, abolish the insanity defense, change the test of insanity, shift the burden of proof to the defendant, create new guilty but mentally ill verdict, revise the trial procedure for raising an insanity plea, changing the procedures for committing a person found not guilty. The insanity defense is very rarely used successfully (less than 1% of all indictments). Therefore, closing the loophole would not impact crime and it wouldn't impact robbery and burglary since the defense is most often raised in murder cases. [Show More]

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