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- adjective Of or pertaining to being incapacitated.
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LWOP has the same incapacitative effect as does execution...
A capital idea? 2007
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LWOP has the same incapacitative effect as does execution...
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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It is also true that the system of punishment that emerges under this argument leaves punishment in any actual individual case something of a ritual -- in some cases an empty ritual, and in any case a highly formalized act whose exact retributive and incapacitative effects are uncertain.
Punishment Bedau, Hugo Adam 2005
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Research on the effects of imprisonment suggests that policy - makers, while intending to enhance public safety, regrettably but understandably, pursue a single-minded concern of crime reduction through deterrent and incapacitative effects of increased imprisonment.
SPEECH BY J N MASHIMBYE,ANC MP DURING THE DEBATE ON BUDGET VOTE 21: CORRECTIONAL SERVICES 2003
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Given the positive correlation between decline in repeated criminal violence and advancement in the career-offender's age, and given that most recidivists enter prison the first time quite early in life, and, finally, in view of the criminogenic conditions rampant in our penal institutions — how, in terms of their own stated rationale, can Sherman and Hawkins justify a five-year recommended ceiling on incapacitative confinement?
Prisons & Punishment Pugsley, Robert A. 1982
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On the one hand, it does not appear that three-strikes in California has had a significant deterrent or incapacitative effect on crime.
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Intensive community programming and supervision is also strongly incapacitative.
Cato Unbound Bruce Western 2009
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Amee and Stephane’s work on this both find evidence of such incapacitative effects.
What Do Declining Abortion Rates Mean for Crime in the Future? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Wilson, who had written in Commentary the previous year that prison terms for crack dealers "do not have the same incapacitative effect as sentences for robbery ....
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