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Types of Incapacitation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔seeks to reduce crime by keeping
offenders off the streets, without trying to deter or rehabilitate them.
SELECTIVE INCAPACITATION- is designed to lock up only the few high-
rate offenders or career criminals.
GROSS INCAPACITATION- involves locking up large numbers of
offenders regardless of their criminal histories.
Drug Law - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1973 New York law(Rockefeller Drug Law) was
designed to incapacitate and deter future use of drugs through mandatory
and long prison terms, restrictions on plea bargaining.
Three categories of offenders were major, middle-level and minor dealers.
The law attempted to prevent the abuse of plea bargaining.
, Enormous slippage or leakage occurred between arrest and conviction that
actually resulted in decreased indictment and conviction rates.
The Law did not completely fail in its objectives, for those convicted, the
rate of incarceration increased, however almost half evaded mandatory
sentencing provisions.
The impact of the Rockefeller Drug Law - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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.
During the past four years, there has been a change in public sentiment,
there were fourty one changes in policies in 24 states in the year 2012.
Insanity Defense - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In one public opinion survey, 87% of
respondents felt the insanity defense was a loophole and 40% called it a
rich persons defense.
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 new guilty but mentally ill verdict,
revise the trial procedure for raising an insanity plea, changing the
procedures for committing a person found not guilty.