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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses if the criminal justice system effectively controls crime; how effective punishment is in controlling crime; why people commit crime; and how the writer would control crime. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the rates of violent crimes are so much higher in the United States as compared with other modern industrialized countries: drugs and guns. For America to reduce its incidence
of violent crimes, it must 1) first look to the past and 2) examine the success of other countries for clues as to why there still exists a problem.
The United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem. Attempts to legalize
the otherwise unacceptable substances have routinely been met with staunch opposition, as people continue to believe that doing so would do nothing but unleash an even worse monster upon society.
However, it can be argued that Americas drug problem is not rooted in the actual usage but more so in the manner that law enforcement deals with the problem.
What is needed now is not more laws and astronomical tax payer expenses, but a more logical and enlightened approach: legalization, or at the very least, decriminalization. History
has taught America that prohibition does not stop crime or decrease the demand; instead, it has just the opposite effect (Nadelmann, 1993). II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING
CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation
that holds the dubious title of having the worlds highest incarceration rate due to federal minimum sentencing requirements mandated by law in the 1980s. The result is that state
correctional prison budgets are exploding and the national inmate population currently stands at no less than one million prisoners (Grayson, 1997). Californias courts, which are torn between liberals who
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