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This 4 page paper suggests that although increasing the sentence for armed robbery could decrease the incidence of this crime, it also argues that doubling the sentence may be excessive and suggests lengthening it instead. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This paper considers whether or not the term for armed robbery should be doubled. Discussion The theory behind imprisonment has, for a long time, been two-fold: prison is meant to
punish people who break the law, but it is also supposed to reform them so that they will not repeat their crimes upon release. Its fair to say that the
second part of the equation has been lost: the popularity of the three-strikes laws that have been passed in many states would seem to indicate that numerous people care only
about putting those convicted of crimes in prison for as long as possible. Prison is punitive; what we need to decide is whether or not it is effective, and whether
or not increasing the term for armed robbery would decrease the incidence of this crime. There is also the issue of increasing the prison term for armed robbery but not
for unarmed robbery. Would this send a message that unarmed robbery is somehow more "acceptable" than the same crime when committed with a gun? Lets take these points one at
a time. Does prison work? Despite decades of study, there still doesnt seem to be a consensus on this: "Nearly twenty years ago, for example, the prestigious National Academy of
Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or the other" (McGarrell, 1999). However, McGarrell insists that a
"targeted approach" can have significant effects on deterrence. He describes the police experience in San Diego and New York; in both cities, officers stopped "suspicious" persons and responded to both
serious crimes and crimes against the "quality of life" (McGarrell, 1999). The overall result was an increased amount of contact between the citizens and the police, and a corresponding drop
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