Homework

1
Homework

• Review Pages 4-10
• Read Pages 106-131
• Essay Page 131, Questions 2 and 3
• The essay will be read and corrected by a
  classmate in class.
• Once corrected, I will collect them and return
  them.
• 10 Class Participation points, 5 per essay
• Due Friday

2

• Man can choose or not choose what he wants to do.
  He can commit a crime or resist temptation.
  This is ____________.

3

• Free Will

4

• A persons decision to commit or not to commit a
  crime is based on pain and _______.
• a. Pleasure
• b. Pain Killers
• c. Crime
• d. Severity

5

• In Classical Criminology, a persons choice of
  criminal acts can be controlled by
• a. Counseling and rehabilitation
• Work Release Programs
• Swift, severe and certain punishment
• Embarrassment of the crime committed

6

• A Classical Criminologist would be in support of
• Mandatory Sentencing
• Certainty and celerity of punishment
• Deterrence by administering pain in appropriate
  amounts
• Elimination of trials by ordeal
• All of the above

7
Review

• Classical School Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy
  Bentham
• Certain, Swift Punishment for a crime
• Mandatory sentencing
• Let the Punishment fit the Crime

8
Review

• If the punishment must fit the crime, does that
  mean the Pain for gain is the same for everyone?

9
Deterrence

• The persons own experience with punishment
• The likelihood the person will get caught
• Their knowledge of the law

10
Specific Deterrence

• When I was caught the first time, I was severely
  punished. I wont do that again!

11
General Deterrence

• The punishment for that crime is rather severe.
  There is no way I would do that for such a small
  gain!

12
Modern Adaptations

• Blumstein 1978
• longer sentences, if not a deterrent, will keep
  an inmate in longer
• Violent Crime Control Act of 1994

13
Topic

• Is the Three Strikes Law effective?
• Is the Three Strikes Law Popular? Why?

14
Topic

• Do you think the death penalty successfully deals
  with the crime condition in the United States?

15
Topic

• Do you think that a non death penalty country (or
  state) should refuse to extradite to a death
  penalty state for a capitol offense?