¶ … governor should also seek advice from the Department of Corrections in states that have dealt with the same type issues, such as Arizona and Colorado (Movement Against Corruption and Complicity, viewed 2005). The governor should also talk to criminologists who could support her college professor's statement, and possibly to state and local police departments to determine what steps would need to be taken to increase cooperation.
She should appoint a criminologist, someone from the Department of Corrections, state and local police officers, someone from the district attorney's office as well as a public defender, and perhaps a few people from the community, possibly crime victims or activists. Since her ultimate goal is financial, she might also want to appoint someone from the Department of Treasury and Finance.
In speaking to those task members from the community and the criminal justice system, she should praise police efforts and add that she would like to see even more cooperation and coordination so fewer criminals escape punishment. Using tough on crime rhetoric, she could tell them what her college professor said, that it is the certainty of punishment that deters crime. She might use the metaphor of justice currently being like a hawk, striking very hard at a few select criminals but letting the majority go free. She could then say that ideally the justice system should be a boa constrictor, inexorably coiling around those who stray outside the law.
Once the panel was convinced of her toughness on crime, she could then add that punishment need not always mean long jail sentences and bring up advances in community corrections such as electronic house arrest, sex offender control programs, substance abuse screening and intervention programs, etc. (North Carolina Department of Corrections, viewed 2005). She could also add that often the only thing prison teaches people is how to be better criminals and that the recidivism rates for jailed non-violent offenders are shockingly high, in some cases higher than 70% (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2002). She should...
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