| STUDY SHEET -- CHAPTER 7 (Read page 132 carefully!!) What is preventive detention and how does it relate to the right to bail? Why is preventive detention usually not used even when legally available? Overall, what proportion of people on bail commit serious crimes and how does the �prediction problem� relate to this? Why would �speedy trial� be a better way to prevent crime by people on bail? What are selective incapacitation and gross incapacitation? How does the prediction problem relate to selective incapacitation and how does unemployment relate to this? Does �gross incapacitation� (the imprisonment binge) prevent crime? Do �Megan�s Laws� reduce re-offending � or do they increase re-offending? What are mandatory sentencing, �truth in sentencing� and �3 strikes" laws? Do any of these reduce crime? What did the 1973 New York law try to do, and did it work? Did the Federal Sentencing Guidelines work? Does mandatory sentencing reduce serious crime? Do three strikes laws reduce serious crime? |