CJA 498 Module 4 Assignment 2 Balancing Values
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When state budgets get tight, people's attitudes on the cost of incarceration versus their
attitude on alternatives to incarceration tend to change. This assignment discusses the choices
available to citizens when the priorities on alternatives to incarceration conflict with each
other.
Tasks:
Write a 2- to 3-page report, including the following:
Examine people's attitude toward the cost of incarceration versus their attitude toward
alternatives to incarceration, especially when budgets shrink. How does the public's attitude
toward incarceration and its alternatives compare to the "Get Tough on Crime" and the "Three
Strikes" laws?
Do you place more value upon incapacitation or upon rehabilitation and correction? In the end,
which works better, or do they work best together in some combination or hierarchy? Support
your responses with evidence from the readings for the course or other credible sources.
Discuss one article from real life (located using the readings from the textbook, Argosy
University online library resources, and any other credible outside sources) demonstrating how
some communities have resolved the conflict in corrections between incapacitation and
correction.
Consider the parks versus prison conundrum. Do we spend more on parks so as to nurture
better society or more for prisons to remove and restrain the evildoers? Are people born