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A justification for punishment holding that removing an offender's capacity to reoffend, whether through imprisonment, execution or restricted supervision, protects the public regardless of whether the offender is reformed. United States incarceration rates rose from about 103 per 100,000 people before 1974 to roughly 716 per 100,000 by 2013, a rise policy analysts attribute substantially to incapacitation-driven sentencing.
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Incapacitation and deterrence are two of the standard, distinct justifications offered for criminal punishment, alongside retribution and rehabilitation.
Policy analysts attribute the scale of United States incarceration substantially to sentencing built around incapacitation.
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