Essays on Get-Tough

The get-tough policies focus on punishment as the sole and primary response to crime. It is worth noting that the model countries emphasize the use of get-tough policy in dealing with crime. The model countries include Germany, France, China, Japan, England, and Saudi Arabia (Dammer and Jay 67). These programs include truth-in-sentencing, zero tolerance, mandatory sentencing, three strokes and other harsher penalties. The model countries have experienced a decrease in the crime rate since the implementation of get-tough policies. The effects of get-tough policies are alarming in most model countries. In fact, most of the organized crimes have declined ...

Why did Sutherland play such a prominent role in discovering “white-collar crime” in the sense of defining it and making it an object of criminological study? Sutherland’s interest in “white-collar crime” was stirred by the realization that most conventional criminological theories were focused and applicable only to crimes usually perpetrated by the lower-class. He believed that his own theory of differential association was both applicable to lower-class and upper-class individuals. His interest was even more reinforced when the stock market crashed in 1929. With the country and many of the people suffering from economic depression, Sutherland became more ...

Rehabilitation versus Incarceration

JUVENILE OFFENDERS 2 Introduction Crime is a prevalent factor in American society, and is committed among all individuals regardless of age, race, gender, or socioeconomic status. The majority of American juveniles, individuals under the age of eighteen, have admitted to committing some type of crime throughout their young life. While the majority of crimes by juveniles are considered petty, non-violent, and overall minor offenses, youths also commit dangerous and heinous acts of crime identical to what we see in the adult penal system. In the last 30 years, Sociologists, Criminologists, and Penologists have witnessed both major and minor ...

The article being reviewed concerns criminal justice and behavior where an intensive rehabilitation supervisory program is analyzed by the application of a quasi-experimental evaluation. There has been an increased understanding that was developed in regard to the interventions that do work as well as those that do not work with offenders. Programs dealing with treatment to offender risk, responsivity factors and needs have been linked with reduced recidivism (Bonta, Wallace-Capretta and Rooney). In other words, it analyses a cognitive-behavioral treatment plan delivered within the scope of intensive community administration through electronic monitoring (EM). There exists recognition that sanctions devoid of a ...