CCJ4614 Barkan Chapter 18 Test With
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Mass incarceration at the heart of the "get tough" approach has created
many problems that are called what? - ANSWER Collateral consequences
What do these collateral consequences include? - ANSWER 1.) The release of
some 700,000 ex-prisoners every year back into their home communities
2.) Joblessness, drug addiction, and other problems among these ex-inmates
3.) The resulting prospect of many additional crimes committed by these
former prisoners
4.) A generation of children raised with one parent in prison or jail
5.) Community-level problems including poverty, homelessness, and AIDS,
and other infectious diseases
If we tried to prevent a disease by only curing those having it and not
attacking the underlying causes, that disease would certainly continue.
Recognizing this, the public health model stresses the need to identify the
social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target
these causes - ANSWER
The US has focused on "curing" those "afflicted" with crime by arresting as
many as possible and putting them behind bars, all to little avail, and
creating many other problems in the process - ANSWER
Describe the Criminal Justice Funnel. - ANSWER - Top of funnel: The number
of crimes committed
,- Bottom of funnel: The number of offenders going to prison or jail
- A sharp drop in numbers occurs at every stage of the criminal justice
process.
True or False.
Inevitably, these decisions "kick out" many crimes and suspects from the
criminal justice system or at least from consideration for incarceration, so
only a few remain at the bottom of the funnel - ANSWER True
Of the crimes known to the police, only about ________ overall are cleared by
arrest. - ANSWER 1/5th
What happens to the people arrested? - ANSWER Relatively few are
convicted of felonies, and even fewer of these are sentenced to prison or jail.
Many cases are either droppd for lack of sufficient evidence or are plea
bargained to a misdemeanor, for which incarceration is unlikely. Of those
convicted of a felony, some receive probation and/or fines instead of
imprisonment
We start with more than 21 million personal victimizations at the top of the
funnel and end up with just 320,908 persons going to prison or jail at the
bottom of the funnel. This number of incarcerated offenders represents only
about 1.5% of the total number of victimizations estimated by the NCVS -
ANSWER
The funnel effect for violent crimes is _________ severe. - ANSWER Less
True or False.
Although the drop throughout the violent crime funnel is less severe than the
drop for the funnel combining violent and property offenses, it is still
, noticeable - ANSWER True
What are the funnels effects' implications for public policy on crime? -
ANSWER One implication is that efforts concentrating on offenders and
offenses at the bottom of the funnel will have only a limited impact, if that,
on overall crime.
- Even if all people convicted of a violent felony each year were sentenced to
prison for life, for example, they would still represent only a very small
proportion of all people committing such felonies, leaving the crime rate
essentially intact.
Suppose you decided you wanted to double the number of people going to
prison for felonies. How much would that cost, and would the money be
worth it? - ANSWER - This would still leave 85% of all crimes unaccounted for
- Even if we just tried to "fix" the violent crime funnel, doubling the number
at the bottom would still leave the vast majority of violent crimes
unaccounted for
- It would eventually cost an extra $47 billion annually to house new
prisoners
- The cost of doubling the police would amount to an additional $75 billion
annually
True or False
The total expenditure would run into hundreds of billions of dollars, just to
double the proportion of victimizations leading to imprisonment from 1.5 to
3% - ANSWER True
As this brief discussion suggests, it makes more sense to concentrate on the
Complete Solution
Mass incarceration at the heart of the "get tough" approach has created
many problems that are called what? - ANSWER Collateral consequences
What do these collateral consequences include? - ANSWER 1.) The release of
some 700,000 ex-prisoners every year back into their home communities
2.) Joblessness, drug addiction, and other problems among these ex-inmates
3.) The resulting prospect of many additional crimes committed by these
former prisoners
4.) A generation of children raised with one parent in prison or jail
5.) Community-level problems including poverty, homelessness, and AIDS,
and other infectious diseases
If we tried to prevent a disease by only curing those having it and not
attacking the underlying causes, that disease would certainly continue.
Recognizing this, the public health model stresses the need to identify the
social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target
these causes - ANSWER
The US has focused on "curing" those "afflicted" with crime by arresting as
many as possible and putting them behind bars, all to little avail, and
creating many other problems in the process - ANSWER
Describe the Criminal Justice Funnel. - ANSWER - Top of funnel: The number
of crimes committed
,- Bottom of funnel: The number of offenders going to prison or jail
- A sharp drop in numbers occurs at every stage of the criminal justice
process.
True or False.
Inevitably, these decisions "kick out" many crimes and suspects from the
criminal justice system or at least from consideration for incarceration, so
only a few remain at the bottom of the funnel - ANSWER True
Of the crimes known to the police, only about ________ overall are cleared by
arrest. - ANSWER 1/5th
What happens to the people arrested? - ANSWER Relatively few are
convicted of felonies, and even fewer of these are sentenced to prison or jail.
Many cases are either droppd for lack of sufficient evidence or are plea
bargained to a misdemeanor, for which incarceration is unlikely. Of those
convicted of a felony, some receive probation and/or fines instead of
imprisonment
We start with more than 21 million personal victimizations at the top of the
funnel and end up with just 320,908 persons going to prison or jail at the
bottom of the funnel. This number of incarcerated offenders represents only
about 1.5% of the total number of victimizations estimated by the NCVS -
ANSWER
The funnel effect for violent crimes is _________ severe. - ANSWER Less
True or False.
Although the drop throughout the violent crime funnel is less severe than the
drop for the funnel combining violent and property offenses, it is still
, noticeable - ANSWER True
What are the funnels effects' implications for public policy on crime? -
ANSWER One implication is that efforts concentrating on offenders and
offenses at the bottom of the funnel will have only a limited impact, if that,
on overall crime.
- Even if all people convicted of a violent felony each year were sentenced to
prison for life, for example, they would still represent only a very small
proportion of all people committing such felonies, leaving the crime rate
essentially intact.
Suppose you decided you wanted to double the number of people going to
prison for felonies. How much would that cost, and would the money be
worth it? - ANSWER - This would still leave 85% of all crimes unaccounted for
- Even if we just tried to "fix" the violent crime funnel, doubling the number
at the bottom would still leave the vast majority of violent crimes
unaccounted for
- It would eventually cost an extra $47 billion annually to house new
prisoners
- The cost of doubling the police would amount to an additional $75 billion
annually
True or False
The total expenditure would run into hundreds of billions of dollars, just to
double the proportion of victimizations leading to imprisonment from 1.5 to
3% - ANSWER True
As this brief discussion suggests, it makes more sense to concentrate on the
