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This is a 6 page paper that provides an overview of public safety challenges in the 21st century. A number of issues are analyzed with appeals to published literature and studies. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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to be borne out in Spohns work. She examines trends in recidivism rates among studied populations that were sentenced to prison or were sentenced to probation, and, drawing from the
findings that the prison population tends to rescind "significantly more", Spohn concludes that prison does have the tendency to increase recidivism in offenders by diminishing their "stakes in conformity"; simply
put, they have less "to lose" by re-offending than those placed on probation (and thusly not removed from the conforming influence of society) (Spohn, 2007). The Impact of
Theory on Police Sung and Richters work addresses the question of whether or not environmental factors influence the "rational choice" of offenders to forego drug treatment (Sung & Richter,
2007). They operate from a framework based in classical theory in which the individual makes a "rational choice" based on a process of analyzing costs and benefits, and utilize a
methodology of observing retention data from just under 2,000 drug-related felons placd into long-term residential treatment programs in order to determine the impact of environmental factors upon this "rational choice"
(Sung & Richter, 2007). Their findings were that "criminal sanctions against drug offenses" and "lack of legitimate job opportunities" both deterred individuals from making the "rational choice" to stop treatment
(Sung & Richter, 2007). Research Study Comparison Descriptive studies are those which analyze existing trends in society in order to facilitate a more detailed and nuanced understanding
of those trends. For example, there is Riglers 2006 study on Mexican American perceptions of the Texas Rangers, which is based primarily upon surveyed opinions from a representative population of
Mexican Americans, and "describes" the problem of self-reported low regard for Texas Rangers among that population (Rigler, 2006). By contrast, explanatory studies attempt not just to describe trends, but
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