CJBS 300 FINAL REVIEW 2
Conservatives/Liberals standpoints on parole - Answers - Through treatment is
preferred liberals, conservatives support faith-based versions of treatment
Faith-based treatment programs can be derived from organic religion or intentional
religion
Organic religion assumes religion is an integral part of a person's life independent of
deviance or crime
For decades, decriminalizing certain offenses was a major liberal policy
recommendation
Decriminalization of public drunkenness, drug purchase, possession and use of drugs,
gambling, disorderly conduct and vagrancy, abortion, private sexual activity between
consenting adults and juvenile "status" offenses have been recommended by liberals
Gun Control laws - Answers - Laws regulating the manufacture, importation, sale,
distribution, possession, or use of firearms.
Victims Rights - Answers - The 1982 President's Task Force on Victims of Crime made
declarations that contributed to a victims rights movement in the form of new laws and
programs designed to help crime victims
In 1983, the Officer for Victims of Crime was established by the Justice Department.
Since then, the status of the victim in the U.S. criminal justice system has been
completely transformed
Sex Offender Registration laws - Answers - All 50 states have Megan's Laws designed
to control sex offenders through registration and community notification
GBMI (Guilty but mentally ill) - Answers - 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 a new guilty but mentally ill
verdict, revise the trial procedure for raising an insanity plea, changing the procedures
for committing a person found NGRI
"Get Tough" laws and crime victims - Answers -
Mass incarceration - Answers - 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
Three strikes law in California - Answers - The essence of the Three Strikes law was to
require a defendant convicted of any new felony, having suffered one prior conviction of
a serious felony to be sentenced to state prison for twice the term otherwise provided
for the crime.
Conservatives/Liberals standpoints on parole - Answers - Through treatment is
preferred liberals, conservatives support faith-based versions of treatment
Faith-based treatment programs can be derived from organic religion or intentional
religion
Organic religion assumes religion is an integral part of a person's life independent of
deviance or crime
For decades, decriminalizing certain offenses was a major liberal policy
recommendation
Decriminalization of public drunkenness, drug purchase, possession and use of drugs,
gambling, disorderly conduct and vagrancy, abortion, private sexual activity between
consenting adults and juvenile "status" offenses have been recommended by liberals
Gun Control laws - Answers - Laws regulating the manufacture, importation, sale,
distribution, possession, or use of firearms.
Victims Rights - Answers - The 1982 President's Task Force on Victims of Crime made
declarations that contributed to a victims rights movement in the form of new laws and
programs designed to help crime victims
In 1983, the Officer for Victims of Crime was established by the Justice Department.
Since then, the status of the victim in the U.S. criminal justice system has been
completely transformed
Sex Offender Registration laws - Answers - All 50 states have Megan's Laws designed
to control sex offenders through registration and community notification
GBMI (Guilty but mentally ill) - Answers - 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 a new guilty but mentally ill
verdict, revise the trial procedure for raising an insanity plea, changing the procedures
for committing a person found NGRI
"Get Tough" laws and crime victims - Answers -
Mass incarceration - Answers - 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
Three strikes law in California - Answers - The essence of the Three Strikes law was to
require a defendant convicted of any new felony, having suffered one prior conviction of
a serious felony to be sentenced to state prison for twice the term otherwise provided
for the crime.
