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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Incapacitation and deterrence are two of the standard, distinct justifications offered for criminal punishment, alongside retribution and rehabilitation.
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Policy analysts attribute the scale of United States incarceration substantially to sentencing built around incapacitation.
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Norval Morris was a central figure in the 1970s-80s scholarly debate over selective incapacitation as a sentencing rationale, including his critical work on the limits of predicting future dangerousness for that purpose.
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It involves capital punishment, sending an offender to prison, or possibly restricting their freedom in the community, to protect society and prevent that person from committing further crimes.
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Deterrence and incapacitation: estimating the effects of criminal sanctions on crime rates
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In criminal law , incapacitation is the act of rendering an individual incapable of committing future crimes .
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