CRJ301: Criminal Sentencing Juvenile Justice (professor)

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Criminal Sentencing1Running head: CRIMINAL SENTENCINGCriminal SentencingSandy DiazCRJ301: Juvenile Justice(professor)Instructor: Dianne WilliamsApril 29, 2012In your analysis of criminal sentencing, you discuss various forms of punishment, such asretribution, incapacitation, and deterrence. Based on the theories presented in the essay, howeffective do you believe the current criminal sentencing practices in the United States are inachieving the goals of crime prevention, deterrence, and rehabilitation? Additionally, provide acritical evaluation of whether alternatives to incarceration, such as restorative justice programs,could be more effective in reducing recidivism and improving societal outcomes.Word Count Requirement:600-800 words

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Criminal Sentencing2AbstractCriminal sentencing is intended as prevention to future criminality as well as protecting thepublic and preserving the established values of society.Currently, the main emphasis of criminalsentencing in the United States is that criminals must receive punishments proportionate with thegravity of their offenses.Yet there is little indication that suggests changes in criminal behaviouras an outcome of government-imposed criminal sentencing as numerous past probationers anddischarged prisoners constantly perpetrate crimes.Criminal SentencingIntroductionWhere there is malicious intent or unjustifiable disregard for safety,acorrespondingpunishmentthereforeisjustifiable.A judge may sentence a person found guilty of a crime tocapital punishment, intermediate sanctions, probation, fines, or imprisonment; and along with thejudge’s assumption of the specific criminal sentence is the idea that the punishment is useful.However, most sentences in the contemporary societies involve incarceration.The principalintention of criminal sentencing is to punish the lawbreaker. Although rehabilitation is an aspiredgoal of criminal sentencing, it is only secondary to the purpose of punishment.Currently, the United States, as compared toothercountries, has the highestpercentageofcitizenimprisonment.Among the leading industrialized countries, the murder rate of theUnited States is 3.5 times higher than the second place Italy (Fauteck, n.d.). Moreover, themajority of persons discharged from incarceration in the country are expected to be convicted ofanother crimewithin five years (Fauteck, n.d.).Despite the relentless problem, the countryisunmoving that appropriate sentencing practice, laws and regulations ofcorrectional programs,

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