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( 8 pp) Every year, in every legislative assembly
in the nation, the lawmakers consider new
responses to crime. The choices that legislators
make about crime have a big impact, an impact that
is growing all the time. There is honest
disagreement about how much it is possible to
reduce crime rates through criminal law enforcement,
but it is beyond question that criminal law
enforcement and punishment has a larger fiscal
impact on state government every year.
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it is beyond question that criminal law enforcement and punishment has a larger fiscal impact on state government every year. Bibliography lists 9 sources. BBcrimst.doc
SENTENCING OF CRIMINALS Written by for the Paperstore, Inc., July 2000 Introduction: Nothing grabs a legislators attention like
crime. Every year, in every legislative assembly in the nation, the lawmakers consider new responses to crime. The choices that legislators make about crime have a big impact, an impact
that is growing all the time. There is honest disagreement about how much it is possible to reduce crime rates through criminal law enforcement, but it is beyond question that
criminal law enforcement and punishment has a larger fiscal impact on state government every year. Legislatures, judges, and executive branch officials have often failed over the years when they have
tried to change or administer sentencing policy. They have failed in recognizable and predictable patterns. These patterns of institutional failure might be called "pathologies." They are deviations from
the more ordinary and effective functions of these governmental institutions, deviations that (we might optimistically assume) are capable of study and prevention. Statistics According to the US Bureau of
Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of felonies - State convicted 997,970 adults and Federal convicted
43,839 adults (accounting for 4% of the national total.) In 1996, 69% of all convicted felons were sentenced to a period of confinement - 38% to State prisons
and 31% to local jails. Jail sentences are for short-term confinement (usually for a year or less) in a county or city facility, while prison sentences are for long-term confinement
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