Corrections Collective and Selective Incapacitation Essay

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First of all, the number of people being arrested "is far lower than the number of crimes being committed," an indication that placing repeat and habitual offenders in prison for longer periods of time has decreased the arrest rate. Second, some crime analysts have estimated that keeping repeat and habitual offender in prison has lowered crimes by individuals by as much as fifteen crimes per year which when multiplied with the 1.4 million increase in the prison population since 1984 rounds out to about 21 million less crimes per year in the U.S. ("Lock 'Em Up," 2005, Internet).

Obviously, this "prison experiment" of locking up repeat and habitual offenders for longer periods of time seems to have been a success. Kathleen Auerhahn, writing in Selective Incapacitation and Public Policy, points out that both forms of incapacitation have greatly reduced the number of criminals on the streets of America and have significantly lowered the number of crimes being committed, not only by serious offenders but also by young men under the age of twenty five. "From a logical perspective," according to Auerhahn, "the greater the length of time that a violent repeat offender spends behind bars, the less amount of crimes that individual will commit" which as a consequence allows policemen and other law enforcement officials "more time to do their jobs which basically is to protect the well-being and safety of the general public, rather than spending inordinate amounts of valuable time arresting and jailing the same offenders over and over again" (2003, p. 167).

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