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Highlights: Between 2009 and 2020, the rate of nonfatal criminal victimization (including theft and violent victimization) decreased for students ages 12 to 18, from 51 to 11 victimizations per 1,000 students.
- Ernest Van Den Haag
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- ERNEST VAN DEN HAA G
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- ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG
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Let me assume that rehabilitation is one hundred percent success-ful. This "total rehabilitation" exceeds the wildest dreams of dedicated proponents, but the assumption will help us focus on the crime rate. Total rehabilitation means that every convict who serves any sentence-be it thirty days, or thirty years, in prison or on probation-becomes a l...
[Vol. 73 whereas in the past they committed a far greater number of dental acts before rehabilitation. There would be a temporary decline of dental acts. But, if the demand for dentistry is unchanged, the reduced supply of dentists would augment the net advantage for people willing to com-mit dentistry. The higher net advantage very soon would attr...
car thieves, are readily replaced if the demand for their services does not decrease. Increased frequency of rehabilitation merely creates an oppor-tunity for others to provide these services at a sufficient net advantage to attract them. An increased rate of rehabilitation simply leads to a higher rate of first offenses by new entrants. As the net...
limited, rehabilitation could reduce the number of actual offenders. Probably there are more potential child molesters than actual ones. Still, the number of potential molesters is likely to be quite limited, if, as seems likely, child molesters have an idiosyncratic personality type which is not all that frequent.2 2 Hence, the greater the number ...
[Vol. 73 nomic reform and, specifically, of greater distributive equality, it could not replace deterrent threats and punishments as means of crime control. Thus, we are left in the main with manipulating the severity and frequency of punishment. Increases of either, in addition to direct ef-fects on the net advantage of crime, have important indir...
Does rehabilitation lose all value if it has no effect on the crime rate? Not if one is concerned with saving souls by influencing the moral fate of individual convicts. The moral value of rehabilitation then be-comes independent of any impact on the crime rate. Private secular as well as religious organizations are legitimately interested in the m...
if they did rehabilitate; hence they cannot be justified on any conse-quentialist social grounds. Nor do they contribute to justice. Justice is done according to what the offense deserves, whereas parole and work-release depend on a judgment of the offender's future behavior, or on an attempt to influence it. Whatever its merits, such an attempt is...
- Ernest Van Den Haag
- 1982
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The number of Index crimes reported in New York State increased 1.7 percent in 2020 as compared to the previous year. Violent crime increased by 1 percent. There were fewer reported rapes (-15.5%) and rob-beries (-3.1%) but increases in reported mur-ders and aggravated assaults.
Mar 22, 2022 · New York’s bail reform legislation went into effect at the start of 2020 and changed where and how judges may impose monetary bail pending the outcome of a criminal case. Broadly speaking, the law separates cases into two categories based on the alleged crime involved.
Jan 6, 2021 · In calendar 2020, overall crime was lower than in 2019, dropping to a new benchmark of 95,552 reported incidents – representing 681 fewer victims than last year and 11,668 fewer victims than in 2014, the first year of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
Jul 6, 2021 · For the month of June, the crime of burglary posted a 49.6% reduction (927 v. 1,828) compared to the previous year. As summer proceeds, the NYPD remains focused on precision policing to reduce violence across all five boroughs.
Aug 5, 2021 · In July 2021, overall index crime in the city increased 0.2% compared with July 2020, driven by a 13.9 % increase in Grand Larceny Auto (1,007 v. 884), and a 8.6% increase in robbery (1,247 v. 1,148). For the month of July, the crime of burglary posted a 24% reduction (1,030 v. 1,355) compared to the previous year.
