Truth-In-Sentencing Laws Deter Crime

TRUTH-IN-SENTENCING LAWS DETER CRIMEName:Course:Date:Institution Affiliation:Truth-In-Sentencing Laws Deter CrimeTruth-in-sentencing laws deter crime by giving offenders hope of early release and behavioral change. There is no point of keeping offenders in prison if the justice system is fully convinced that the offender has accepted his bad behavior and resolved to change by engaging in behavioral change programs. Policies that enable offenders to serve at least 85 percent of their total sentence in prison deter crime by teaching these prisoners a lesson that they will not forget. An offender might have committed a heinous offence yes, but by applying the truth-in-sentencing policies to grant this prison an opportunity to leave the prison early gives him or her time to think about his or her future and change for the better. The probability of such an offender to commit crime again in future is zero. Truth-in-sentencing laws are the best policy that will reap America off crime and foster a society of conscious people who respect the law (Cunneen 1992).Reducing the certainty of the length of time that offenders must serve in prison deters crime by