Exam 2: Crime Control Perspectives

Like retribution, incapacitation is a fairly ____________perspective.

Retribution is concerned, simply, with punishing criminals on the basis of the ____________of their crimes.

Retribution is a concept of punishment that is concerned with protecting members of society by removing the criminal element.

Like retribution, incapacitation is a fairly long- sighted perspective.

Americans tend to be shortsighted with respect to crime control.

Due process advocates place greater emphasis on legal guilt (whether a person is guilty according to the law) than on factual guilt (whether a person actually committed the crime with which she or he is charged). Crime control advocates take a serious interest in this country in controlling crime and are tolerant of the police doing whatever it takes to keep criminals off the streets. The Supreme Court has taken action to protect citizens' rights by not allowing any illegally obtained evidence to be used in a court trial against the accused. This rule of law, called the "exclusionary rule," has resulted in dangerous criminals being released into the community due to inappropriate actions by the police. Do you feel this is the right way to deal with corrupt or poor police work? Do you have any other suggestions as to how to keep the guilty in jail and at the same time be treated fairly?

Academics are often described derisively as____________types who have little connection to the real world.

Not all criminals can change. Some may be resistant to treatment; others may just be prone to____________

Retribution is concerned, simply, with punishing criminals on the basis of the severity of their crimes.

Why do you think people commit crime? Are you more of a conservative or a liberal? Based on your theory, what would you recommend as a deterrent to control crime?

Hard- line__________and conservatives disagree about the causes of crime.

Academics are often described derisively as ivory tower types.

Some criminals may be resistant to treatment; others may just be prone to failure.

The liberal perspective closely resembles the ________.

Of the various types of deterrence,____________deterrence is perhaps the most difficult to show.

____________is a goal of criminal justice concerned with punishing criminals on the basis of the severity of their crimes.