Sentencing Convicted Criminals

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This paper discusses the complicated risk management system that balances the possibility of rehabilitation with the degree to which the public may be put at risk if this convicted criminal is not put in jail. The author states that risk control is a controversial topic because it attempts predict future behavior. The paper states that risk control concepts are important for criminals who are struggling with alcohol and drug addictions.

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"Most cultures are to some extent caught within a pendulum-like fluctuation between the belief in and attempts at rehabilitating those who have committed crimes and a get-tough approach in which rehabilitation is very much secondary to the impulse to punish. In the United States, the third quarter of the last century was a time of cultural commitment to the idea of rehabilitation, especially for young offenders. However, in part in response to the general social unrest that accompanied the war in Vietnam, during the 1970s the commitment to rehabilitation began to wane and the tendency to assess potential future risk to the community at large as more important than the possibility of rehabilitation for individual offenders."

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