A Practitioner's Approach to Selective Incapacitation

Criminal justice research provides information to practitioners that may be used to formulate policies in ways that can affect the felony crime rate. Managers of criminal justice agencies may now set objectives that are measurable and important to the public. The process of setting objectives is infrequently explicit and never easy. Habits were developed when previously ample funding did not force the process. Planners, police, prosecutors, and judges often cling to principles with which no one can disagree, such as justice and fairness. However, these high purposes should not be excuses for failure to formulate more specific and consistent objectives which can be measured. A few years ago, planners often measured success by myopic standards, such as arrest and conviction rates. However, recent research, much of it sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, is more sophisticated and provides data on which to base decisions to reduce felony crime. Thus, managers can implement a program that may realistically affect crime

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  Open Access•Andrew Skotnicki, Karol Lucken•Histories•2025

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• Administrative Law and Governmentality

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• Delinquency in a birth cohort

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• Selective Incapacitation as a Means of Crime Control

  Open Access•Alfred Blumstein•American Behavioral Scientist•1983

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