Deterrence Incapacitation Rehabilitation Therapeutic Moral Purposes Moral example D emarcation Remediation Retribution Humiliation Penitence Deterrence Sentence based on effectiveness in reducing rate and severity of criminal harm not justice ID: 775508
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Purposes of Punishment
Crime Control DeterrenceIncapacitationRehabilitationTherapeutic
Moral Purposes
Moral example
D
emarcation
Remediation
Retribution
Humiliation
Penitence
Slide2Deterrence
Sentence based on effectiveness in reducing rate and severity of criminal harm, not justice
Assumes that criminal behavior proceeds from rational calculation
Effectiveness highly variable among different types of crime
Research shows severity less important than certainty of punishment
Slide3Crime Index Offenses Cleared by the Police (20% overall)
Murder:
70%
Larceny: 20%
Agg
. Assault: 60% Arson: 15%
Rape: 50%
Burglary: 15%
Robbery: 25% Motor Vehicle Theft: 15%
Slide4Slide5Persons Executed for Interracial Murders 1973-2010
Slide6Other Studies of Racial Disparities
In
California
, killers of whites were more than 3 X more likely to receive death sentences than if they killed minorities (Pierce &
Radelet
, 2005)
In
North Carolina
, killers of whites were 3.5 X
more likely to receive death sentences than if they killed minorities
(
Boger
&
Unah
, 2001)
Slide7Race of Death Row Inmates 2010
Slide8North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act of 2009
Death-row
inmates
have the right to have their
sentences commuted to life without parole if they can prove racial bias played a part in their death sentences.
Law allows inmates
to use data from studies that show bias in the judicial system
statewide – need not show individualized evidence.
Slide9Support for Death Penalty 1936-2011
Slide10Is Death Penalty Fairly Applied, 2001-2011
Slide11Who Supports the Death Penalty?
Support
Oppose
Men
64
32
Women
57
38
18-29 years old
52
45
30-49 years old
62
35
50-64 years old
64
32
65 years &
u
p
65
29
Slide12Death Sentences 1977-2009
Slide13Executions 1977-2009
Slide14Death Sentences & Executions