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Domestic violence
Types of data/methods: Sherman and Berk found that arresting batterers reduced by half the rate of subsequent offenses against the same victim within a 6-month followup period. However, in follow-up studies, sometimes offenders assigned to the arrest group had higher levels of (recidivism) while others showed a reduction in repeat cases.
Advantages/Disadvantages: Although the repeat nature of the offenses in a series of trials shows thoroughness, the inconsistent findings about whether mandatory arrest reduces domestic violence suggests more information about the different cases might be necessary to show if arrest helps in some cases but not in others.
Question
Summarize the overall prevalence and incidence of the crime problem in the 1960s as portrayed by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (pg.361) and by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (pg.37). Likewise, summarize the present state of affairs (draw from websites in Lessons One and Two for comparative data). Compare the two eras and analyze the differences.
President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (Jacoby, 2004, p.361) presented a picture of law enforcement that was fundamentally ineffective, in terms of the way it treated the problem of criminality. It presented a vision of the justice system with a high recidivism rate, and a hostile state of affairs between police and the public. Along with the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (Jacoby, 2004, p.37) it was inclined to see crime as a cultural and social problem, spawned by the problems of poverty, inequality, and racial justice. The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence also targeted the media, such as the negative influence of violence on television as a potential cause of the crime rate.
The website for the Bureau of Justice, which provides national statistics on crime suggests that violent crime has actually declined in America since 1994. (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm) Other crimes such as drug use amongst college students have varied, as rates of past year cocaine use by college students have varied over the past 10 years from a low of 2.0% in 1994 to a high of 5.4% in 2003. Past year marijuana use has ranged from a low of 27.9% in 1993 to a high of 35.9% in 1998. (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dcf/du.htm#use)
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