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Jul 13, 2022 · Becker’s work came as the United States was experiencing a massive crime wave, with violent crime in particular rising 126 percent in just one decade. The theory of the rational criminal suggested a solution, and helped to spur the “tough on crime” policies of the 1970s and 1980s that spawned a dramatic increase in the number of people ...
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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
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This is the first in the Data Collaborative for Justice’s Bail Reform and Recidivism Series.Additional studies forthcoming in 2023 will examine recidivism impacts elsewhere in New York State as well as by using alternative “controlled interrupted time series” methods to test for system-wide shifts in re-arrest rates across all cases subject to mandatory release from the pre-reform (2017 ...
Further discussed below, research to-date does not include a valid analysis of bail reform’s impact on crime or recidivism in New York, despite the matter’s importance to legislators and the public. For New York City, we sought to fill this gap by answering the following five questions: 1.
Aug 3, 2022 · New York City Mayor Eric Adams and police officials on Wednesday released data showing that the number of people arrested three or more times a year for crimes such as robbery, burglary and grand ...
Jan 24, 2022 · The Right Way to Stop Rising Crime in New York. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is ...
The incentive for rehabilitation must therefore be a humane rather than a utilitarian incentive, i.e., to improve the quality of life of the offender than to reduce the crime rate. The cost is low enough now to make crime pay for a rising number of persons because of legal practices justified by the hope of rehabilitation and the mistaken idea ...
