Incarceration without treating addiction fails to deter repeat drug offending.
Evidence
Basically, we have had a revolving door phenomenon where we take an offender, lock him up for whatever appropriate period of time, and have him back out in the community without addressing the underlying source of his criminal behavior… We have to come up with something else that we can do for these folks if we’re going to try and deter their criminal behavior. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1947
Categorization
- XREF: A sitting judge’s diagnosis that law’s punitive tools miss the causal root of drug crime. — connects to: Harsh drug sentences filled prisons without reducing drug offending or recidivism. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1945; More punitive drug sanctions fail to deter subsequent drug offending — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1078; Prison sentences for drug offenses do not deter future drug offending (+18 more)
Broader Connections
- More punitive drug sanctions fail to deter subsequent drug offending
#corroborates(0.95) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1078 - Prison sentences for drug offenses do not deter future drug offending
#corroborates(0.95) - Imprisonment fails to deter future drug offending across all racial groups
#corroborates(0.95) - Criminal punishment patterns lack deterrence or retributive logic
#corroborates(0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 710 - Punitive drug sanctions may backfire by destroying desistance-promoting social opportunities
#expands(0.85) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1074 - Drug courts aim to redirect offenders’ lives rather than punish proportionally
#qualifies(0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1963 - Certainty of apprehension deters drug crime but severity of punishment does not
#complicates(0.80) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1075 - Prisons demonstrably fail to reduce the crime rate
#complicates(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 402 - Penal policy ignores the criminal psyche and acts on market incentives
#complicates(0.75) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1357 - Prison persists as a detestable solution no alternative replaces
#qualifies(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 355 - Rehabilitation has been displaced by incapacitation as prison’s goal
#qualifies(0.75) - Measured drug-use data contradict both the offending-explanation and the equal-offending counterclaim
#qualifies(0.75) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1052 - Prohibitions without enforcement can make severe abuse harder to detect
#complicates(0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 7800 - Mass incarceration stemmed from policy changes, not crime or racial drug differences
#complicates(0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1090 - Penal reform succeeded by managing illegalities differentially, not eliminating them
#complicates(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 144