Deterrence Leslie Cantu: Fear of death deters people from committing crimes, proponents say. ... The idea is that the death penalty does not deter crime. ... Opponents of the death penalty will argue that although it is said to exist as a crime deterrent, in reality it has no effect on crime at all. ... These individuals fall into the "crimes of passion" category. ... Many advocates of capital punishment base their opinions on his results, but what many of them do not know is that no one else besides Ehrlich has come up with the same results (Blumstein, 358). ...

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Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt with in different ways, some of which are sentenced to death. ... It is obvious that dead criminals can not commit any further crimes, either within prison or after being released from it. ... It is believed that fear of execution discourages people from committing crimes. ... Historically, many people have been wrongfully executed for crimes that they did not commit. ...

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The primary question that will determine the direction of this research paper is: What are the political, social, and economic implications of basing the operation of a prison on a purely profit motivation? ... In the 1996 Immigration Reform Act, Congress widely expanded the list of crimes for which a noncitizen must be deported after serving his or her sentence. These crimes, called "aggravated felonies," are now defined to include many offenses that are neither aggravated nor even, in many other jurisdictions, felonies. This has fueled an all-out campaign to find crime-committing immigrants ...

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Other prisoners offer faith-based rehabilitation programs, using faith and religion to encourage prisoners to change their lifestyles towards a moral existence (Langford, 2011). ... Although prisoner rehabilitation does not guarantee the release of an inmate or that they will live the rest of their lives without committing another crime, the idea is that the inmate will use these new found mental and physical skills combined with the desire not to go back to prison as an incentive. ... The purpose of the OCP is to identify innovative, evidence-based programming for offenders, and strengthening...

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