CJ470 Final

• 1. reform has brought reduction in fatalities
• 2. Gun owners should relinquish rights to achieve reductions

• 1. Gun control serves to reduce crime
• 2. Constitutional right to own without restrictions

• Availability
• American Culture (We need guns to survie, Rev War)
• Human Behavior (Guns don't kill people, people kill people)
• Lethality

• 1934. Regulated sale of fully automatic weapons
• 1994. Brady Bill (5 day waiting period, background check)

• Child Access Prevention Laws
• Concealed Weapons Laws
• Regulation of private sales to minors
• Ban on "Assault" weapons
• Ban on "saturday night specials"

• Reduce Availability (Ban Possession, Manufacture, and sale)(Tax sale so much that it makes guns unaffordable)
• Restrict Use (Targets behavior instead of denying ownership) (Mandatory sentencing for crimes committed with a firearm) (Kansas City Experiment)
• Restrict Access (Regulate sale, purchase, and ownership) (Target gun dealers) (Background checks, Brady Bill)

Get tough on crime

Longer Sentences

Based on reform and rehabilitation

Get the offenders into the community where they can be productive and reform back to social norms

Encourage prosecuting attorneys to increase the use of diversion programs

Encourage authorizing district court judges to accept felony pleas

Encourage the use of non-incarcerative sentence recommendations such as fines, costs, community service, and restitution in lieu of incarceration for low-risk offenders who do not pose a threat to society.

A planned correctional intervention that targets for change internal and/or external factors with the goal of reducing recidivism, and where possible, othe aspects of an offender's life.

• Positive outcomes in 48% of the programs evaluated
• Classic example of how social science research is often misinterpreted in the political arean
• Most evaluations were rejected beacuse tests used unreliable measuers, failed to specify "treatment'" did not use proper control groups, or drew questionable conclusions from the data

• Designed to reduce recidivism and substance abuse among non-violent offenders
• Successful rehabilitation through early, continuous, and intense judicially supervised treatment
• Treat addictions as a disease

• Integrate drug treatment services with justice system case processing
• Non adversarial approach
• Broad based access to treatment and rehabilitation services
• Intense monitoring and appropriate sanctions for lapses
• Measure achievement of individual goals
• Ongoing judicial interaction
• Partnerships between court, public treatment agencies, and community based organizations.

• Keeps the offenders in the community instead of sending them to jail
• Emodies the philosophy of rehabilitation

• Voluntary nature of treatment
• Identifying suitable candidates for specific treatment interventions
• Increased supervision and sanctions correlate with less recidivism
• Recidivism is affected by many internal & External factors
• Support network after release
• Follow-Up Support

• Ideology
• Medical effects of a particular drug
• relationship to crime
• individual rights
• extent of illegal drug use
• public policy

• It encourages reckless and combative behavior
• Drug prohibition creates a black market
• Users commit crime to obtain more money for drugs

• Emphasis on law enforcement
• Need to get tougher on drug crimes
• Strategies include both supply reductiong and demand reduction

• Drug use is a public health issue
• Strategy would be legalizing drugs

• Prevention and treatment of drug abuse
• Strategy would be a demand reduction strategy

• Reduce demand
• Reduce supply
• Treatment
• Stricter Sentencing