Actually I am for a death penalty despite what I've been giving you.
I would like to see Mcvey toast my problem is with the system that kills innocents and is discretionary. That cost is too high for me.
No it isn't only a few innocents that get killed, and on the flip side too many get away with it, can you say OJ.
Yes, the violent stat is good cause it is also including crimes like assault that do not warrant the death penalty. Which would make up by far the greater proportion of that statistic.
This is from another report as I leave for you for the day, think about it.
Wiz don't assume they aren't the only ones committing the crime pull your head outa the sand I said compartively. We don't need more prisons in fact the prison system has doubled in the last 10 yrs because not of murder but BS war on drugs. Another topic !!
SKEWING RECIDIVISM RATES
When being tough on crime and skewing recidivism rates remains one of their best vote getting ploys, politicians aren't about to shoot themselves in the foot acknowledging low reoffense
rates. For them finding a study from somewhere with high recidivism rates has been easy. There are so many recidivism studies out there that a few can be found to say almost anything.
When one hears of a study citing high reoffense rates, closer scrutiny will often however lead either to someone focused on the most serious offenders, or to some study with a minuscule
data pool, that may have tracked only a couple of hundred subjects, or less.
Another way for spinmasters to disparage the findings of new research is to decree whatever comes along as "inconclusive". You will also hear "up to" figures: "up to 40% reoffend",
"up to 75% reoffend". The trouble with such claims is they are not averages, and they are not backed by any credible broad base of data like the massive works of Alexander, Furby or
Hanson.
Offense rates for some categories of offenders may be "up to" about 30%, but other categories may be "as low as" 3%. What matters is the average offense rate or a careful tracking of
which offense rate fits which category. If one were to sample a group of sexually dangerous psychotics, a 100% recidivism rate might be conceivable, but the average sex offender is not
in that psychosexually afflicted group.
One politician, Assemblyman Bill Hoge on the make in this last election in Pasadena was claiming without any credible basis whatsoever that sex offenders "will repeat the crime again at
least 90% of the time". Frank Zimring a Law Professor at the University of California at Berkeley addressing Assemblyman Hoge has written "that such gross exaggerations are a "folk
belief", that what we are looking at is the dynamics of ignorance in action", that "this is don't bother me with the facts legislation".
Still another ruse in promoting the myth of high reoffense rates, is to leave out the word sexual and site the arrest rates of sex offenders for other types of crime. If a convicted sex offender
later shoplifts he has committed a new offense, but it's not a new sex offense.
But even by this measure, the arrest rates of sex offenders for other types of crime compare favorably with the arrest rates of others. If for accuracy you interpolate
from large data pools, sex offenders get arrested for other types of crime (including probation violations) at about half the rate of other criminals.
Offense rates are very different before and after being caught. Although many sex offenders may offend for sometime before being apprehended, the commission of new offenses
becomes considerably more difficult once they have been caught and are known to law enforcement. As later detailed in this paper, there are a number if reasons why once caught sex
offenders become less likely to continue offending.