Deterrence Versus Prevention

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Deterrence versus prevention

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Deter is often used when the other party has a choice. It generally implies threatening to take an action

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The police can deter a bad person from breaking the law. (The police are threatening to put someone

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1. Teachers can prevent students from fighting in the yard at lunch time by standing in between them. 2oth are 3uite similar. Deter means to discourage someone from doing something, and prevent means to obstruct a person from doing something. ither one can be used in the same sentence.  *ell *e ll the main difference difference between a deterrence deterrence and a prevention prevention in this situation situation is most easily  put by saying, they are going to try to deter (persuade! Iran into stopping the research and develop developmen mentt of nuclear nuclear warheads warheads and other other nuclea nuclearr devices devices.. $revent $reventing ing them them would would be  physically putting a stop to their efforts by either some how getting a )" sanction or going in by force, which is most likely the option the )4 will use. *ell *ell if you go by their track record.

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In deterrent theory the punishment is inflicted as deterrent to make the criminal an e-ample. $unishment is the major goal of law. In preventive thoery punishment is inflicted as disabler so that the criminal can't repeat the offense. 5ajor goal is avoiding that the crime happens again. Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether  through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the  principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the e-ercise of state authority, works 6 it is hoped %% to diminish offending and enhance public safety. And however  well we think deterrence works, it clearly often does not work nearly as well as we would like 6  and often at very great cost. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly literatures and real%world e-perience, 7ennedy argues that we should reframe the ways in which we think about and produce deterrence. 8e argues that many of the ways in which we seek to deter crime in fact facilitate offending9 that simple steps such as providing clear information to offenders could transform deterrence9 that communities may be far more effective than legal authorities in deterring crime9 that apparently minor  sanctions can deter more effectively than draconian ones9 that groups, rather than individual offenders, should often be the focus of deterrence9 that e- isting legal tools can be used in unusual  but greatly more effective ways9 that even serious offenders can be reached through deliberate moral engagement9 and that authorities, communities, and offenders 6 no matter how divided 6  share and can occupy hidden common ground. The result is a sophisticated but ultimately common%sense and profoundly hopeful case that we can and should use new deterrence strategies to address some of our most important crime  problems. Drawing on and e-panding on the lessons of groundbreaking real%world work like 2oston:s ;peration s 6 +Deterrence and